6 Ways AWS Improves Your Business Scalability
No company wants to stay the same size forever, but the tipping point when business scalability becomes rapid can create growing pains. Hardware. Servers. Data centers, what were formerly major-league problems in the involving large capital expenses, arduous approval processes, and long procurement cycles are now a lot more manageable due to the cloud capabilities of AWS.
Every company is going to have growing pains, but in this case, less is more.
In this article we go over how your company can modernize their infrastructure and harness the advantages of the AWS cloud to improve business scalability.
1. Reduce Costs
First, a huge bonus of cloud adoption done right is the ability to save money. Whether you’re a small-to-medium business (SMB) or a global behemoth, compute, data storage, and management come with costs.
Scaling up a server with one swipe of your finger is a step forward to managing costs effectively.
2. Respond More Efficiently to the Needs of the Business
The AWS cloud unleashes agility. Cloud infrastructure changes are smaller, incremental expenses eliminating capital expenses and the often associated and painstaking approval processes and procurement cycles.
Additionally, cloud infrastructure changes can be made ‘now’, enabling IT to quickly meet the constantly changing needs of the business.
3. Improve Operational Efficiency
Your customers don’t see the back end of your business; it’s the backbone of your company, and it’s expensive when critical systems, like ERP applications, start bogging down.
Moving your business to the cloud ensures that your applications have what they need, and allows you to pay only for services you need.
4. Reduce Operational Expenses
Some businesses can struggle to pay for a host of workstations that need to be frequently updated and modernized. As technology evolves, it can make for a remarkably short shelf life for each incarnation of your hardware. But with AWS, those days are behind you in the form of desktop visualization services.
Application management and deployment becomes much easier when you aren’t having to constantly check if your hardware systems can handle the latest software versions.
5. Lower Maintenance Costs
Some businesses can struggle to pay for a host of workstations that need to be frequently updated and modernized. As technology evolves, it can make for a remarkably short shelf life for each incarnation of your hardware. But with AWS, those days are behind you in the form of desktop visualization services. Application management and deployment becomes much easier when you aren’t having to constantly check if your hardware systems can handle the latest software versions.
6. Data Migration Made Easy
Holding massive amounts of data is something many systems were never designed for based on when they were built. That means loads and loads of extra hardware just as a catch-all for your needs.
AWS allows companies to modify how much space is needed for data storage in close to real-time without needing to pay for more than you are using — and gain intelligence from that data.
Make the Most of ERPA + AWS
Is your company searching for answers on how to make the most out of AWS? Contact ERPA today, one of our experts can explain how to effectively utilize this AWS cloud environment and how it can improve your business scalability.
