The cloud brings unprecedent advantages to businesses that want to have world-class infrastructure but can’t afford it in an on-premise environment. The cloud migration process starts with an assessment of the company’s current infrastructure. Once we understand the specific needs of the company, we then come up with a customized strategy for migration. Most companies prefer to do a pilot proof of concept, which helps to organically transform from an on-premise focus to a cloud focus. The opportunity to run minor workloads in the cloud helps to grow the staff’s confidence in the cloud environment. One of the simplest ways to get infrastructure up and running in the cloud is by employing a “lift and shift” strategy. We migrate existing applications into virtual machines called EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) in the AWS environment. This type of service is typically called IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). It can be considered a middle of the road step before a full migration can be completed. We discussed overall journey to the cloud in the blog post. DFX5 makes it easy for companies that want to migrate to the cloud successfully and seamlessly using the latest AWS technologies. With more than a hundred managed services under the AWS umbrella, we can facilitate the timely administration of a company’s IT infrastructure. Managed services such as PaaS (Platform as a Service), are highly available, automatically updated, and they save time. With PaaS, clients receive one bill that includes compute power, software license, network, energy supply, and support, which drives down the total cost of ownership. DFX5 has years of experience designing highly available, scalable, and well architected solutions with AWS. Our in-house certified solutions architects work closely with our clients in coming up with the appropriate strategy for cloud migration.