Financial services firms face a difficult technology mandate: improve digital products, make data more useful, and create room for AI while maintaining the resilience and control expected of critical financial systems. Aging infrastructure can slow that work, but cloud migration changes more than the location of an application. It changes how teams manage access, deploy software, recover services, and produce evidence that controls are working.

How to move to the cloud without disrupting sales

For ecommerce companies, pressure to improve digital experiences, absorb unpredictable demand, and launch new capabilities faster is exposing the limits of legacy infrastructure that wasn't built for the way the businesses now operate and sell. 

For manufacturers, pressure to increase productivity, respond faster to supply chain disruptions and changing customer demand, and make greater use of operational data, automation, and AI is exposing the limits of aging on-premises infrastructure and driving migration to AWS.

Explore essential cloud migration and modernization strategies. You'll learn:

• Why most cloud migrations fail and common pitfalls to avoid
   

• A practical framework for migration and modernization that works across AWS and Azure
   

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Key Takeaways

Overview of DigitalOcean Compared to AWS

DigitalOcean and AWS are both cloud computing providers that offer services such as virtual machines, storage, and databases. DigitalOcean focuses primarily on virtual private servers (VPS) for hosting web applications and is best known for its simple web interface. AWS’ comprehensive and feature-rich platform offers a wider range of services including computing, machine learning, and analytics, and has an ecosystem of partners spanning their global infrastructure.

Thanks to rapid advancements creating faster, more reliable computing technologies, many companies are veering away from traditional on-premise databases to cloud-based servers. For those considering migrating their Microsoft SQL Server databases to the cloud, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure remains the go-to hosting service.