The digital landscape is changing rapidly, and companies are under constant pressure to modernize their IT infrastructure and applications. Often, such projects feel like immense challenges – too big, too complex, and too lengthy. But what if there was a way not only to master this transformation but also to achieve quick and measurable success?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wealth of services that enable companies to quickly create value. We'll show you how to improve your infrastructure and applications through cloud migration and targeted modernization with six concrete, AWS-based Quick Wins – without launching a large, comprehensive project.
No matter if you're just starting your migration to AWS or are already deeply rooted in the AWS Cloud and want to further optimize your environment – the principle remains the same: deliver direct value with minimal effort and short implementation times.
Why Quick Wins Make a Difference
Achieving visible success quickly in a project is often crucial. With Quick Wins, you modernize fast and efficiently:
- Boost Team Motivation: Visible successes motivate your team. They build trust and inspire bigger changes, which is especially important during a cloud transition.
- Cost Efficiency: Targeted optimizations quickly create financial benefits, for example, through more efficient resource utilization. This applies whether you're using new cloud resources or existing AWS services.
- Rapid Impact, Broad Effect: The first tangible steps prove the direct value of the cloud. This immediately recognizable value lightens the load on your entire company and paves the way for a profound cloud-native transformation.
These 6 Quick Wins can be achieved through Cloud Migration and Modernization with AWS
Here are six Quick Wins that both newcomers and experienced AWS users can achieve by modernizing their IT:
1. Significant Reduction of Your IT Costs
Imagine paying only for what you truly use. This becomes possible through cloud migration to AWS: Migrate your databases to Managed Services like Amazon RDS or Aurora, where AWS handles maintenance and patching. You can also store vast amounts of data extremely cost-effectively in Amazon S3. The big advantage here? "Rightsizing" your resources – precisely adjust your instances to your individual needs and watch your costs decrease.
2. Maximum Availability and Rapid Recovery of Your Services
A single outage can cause immense costs. But what if your applications were so robust that they continued to run smoothly even during unforeseen problems? With AWS, you build highly available architectures across multiple Availability Zones. Services like AWS Backup suddenly make disaster recovery scenarios simple and affordable. Quickly and effectively boost the resilience of your applications!
Checklist for Migrating VMware to the AWS Cloud
This checklist helps you strategically evaluate your VMware environment, plan migration paths – and sustainably modernize infrastructure and applications on AWS.
3. Faster, Error-Free, and Consistent Infrastructure Provisioning
Manual configurations are often error-prone and time-consuming. With "Infrastructure as Code", you define your entire infrastructure—from servers to networks—declaratively via code, instead of setting it up laboriously by hand. The result? Consistency and reproducibility across all your environments. Changes or scaling are simply made in the code and automatically rolled out, which accelerates processes and eliminates manual errors.
4. Less Effort, More Performance for Your Containerized Applications
Want to leverage the benefits of containers and their automated management but shy away from the immense operational overhead? With AWS's managed container services, that's a thing of the past. Instead of managing your own complex clusters, use fully-managed services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for Kubernetes workloads or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) for even simpler, AWS-native container management. Both significantly reduce operational effort, as AWS handles the management, patching, and scaling of the infrastructure for you. This frees up your team to focus on application development, and your business benefits from the higher performance and scalability of a cloud-native architecture.
5. Faster and Comprehensive Protection for Your IT Environment
Security isn't a luxury; it's a necessity. With AWS, you manage access precisely and centrally using AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management). Gain a comprehensive overview of your security posture and easily monitor compliance requirements with AWS Security Hub. Plus, you automatically benefit from the best security practices integrated into AWS services, ensuring fast and effective protection for your applications.
6. Faster Access to Data Analytics and New Innovation Potential through AI/ML
Can you extract powerful insights from your data? With fully-managed AWS services, you can, no matter where your data resides. Use Amazon S3 for your data lake, Amazon Athena for ad-hoc queries, or Amazon Aurora for data warehousing to achieve immense scalability and performance. Once your data is in the cloud, you can also leverage powerful Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services from AWS to identify patterns, make predictions, or automate processes – all without needing to build your own ML expertise.
Through these Quick Wins, you can specifically reduce your costs, significantly strengthen the resilience of your applications, and revolutionize your deployment processes with Infrastructure as Code. Container operations are simplified by EKS, your security is continuously updated by native services, and you gain valuable insights from your data.
Webinar: Modernize yes - but when? Before, during or after cloud migration?
Register now for our webinar “The right time for modernization.” on 02.09.25 at 10:00 am and find out how you can create sustainable added value with the right timing during cloud migration.
What Do These Successes Really Mean for Your Business?
Quick Wins provide immediately tangible benefits and improvements that drive your business forward. This means:
- Rapid, Tangible Improvements: You'll see immediate positive effects on costs, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
- IT Department Relief: Your teams will be freed from repetitive maintenance tasks, allowing them to focus on strategically important projects.
- A Solid Foundation for Your Cloud Strategy: These Quick Wins are the foundation for a more comprehensive and profound cloud-native strategy that fosters long-term innovation and growth.
Whether you're migrating your first workloads to AWS or optimizing your existing AWS environment, you can quickly benefit from a transition in various areas.
