With traditional business practices being disrupted indefinitely. Consumers are stuck at home shopping online, and businesses are working remotely. It’s never been more crucial for your company to have a rock-solid, dependable website. As a result, where and how to host it becomes essential. In the past, hosting your servers was the obvious choice, but more organizations have embraced the cloud for their workloads recently. In 2018, LogicMonitor’s Cloud Vision 2020 study estimated that by 2020. 83 per cent of enterprise workloads would be in the cloud. With half of those on public cloud platforms like AWS.
Nonetheless, the cloud is still in its infancy, and many organizations are dragging their feet. While staying on-premises may seem enticing at first. The benefits of migrating your website to the cloud make it the more appealing option.
Let’s do the following are the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy and why the cloud finally wins.
Renting vs Owning
Hosting a site on your servers has been compared to owning a house in that you have total authority to do whatever you wish with it, but you are also accountable for everything. Cloud hosting is more akin to having access to worldwide rentals: you pay for what you need and utilize (and someone else handles the maintenance).
Hosting your website, like owning a home, will quickly become expensive. You will incur setup charges over and above the servers, such as an Internet connection capable of handling any planned loads (and unforeseen spikes) and fees your internet provider may charge for establishing a static IP address. Total control entails total responsibility, which means that if a server goes down in the middle of the night, your workers may lose a lot of sleep.
If you run your servers, you must also ensure disaster recovery and backup resources to avoid the severe repercussions of downtime. Gartner put the cost of a network outage at $5,600 per minute or well over $300,000 per hour, and that figure is likely to have dropped since the study was performed in 2014. When faced with that cost, your IT employees will not be the only ones awake at night.
What is the takeaway? “Homeownership” in running your servers entails some risk. With everything out of the way, let’s look at the advantages of the “rental” option: migrating your website to AWS.
Cost-effectiveness has been improved.
While fees are connected with migrating your website to the cloud, the investment immediately pays off. According to a Gartner study, on-premises costs vanish during the second year of migration. Cloud costs are mostly reduced by the middle of the third year of on-premises expenditures. Two-and-a-half years is not enough time in the long run—the cloud-hosted website will save you money.
With the AWS cloud’s “pay-as-you-go” approach, you only pay for the particular services you use for as long as you require them, making cost optimization easy.
AWS provides a wide range of services, and working with an AWS Managed Service Provider like Suffescom can be quite beneficial.
To keep your cloud charges as low as feasible. Using Suffescom service, a specialized team of cloud analysts optimizes your AWS cloud setup, reducing excessive overspending and boosting efficiency, so you can focus on expanding your core business.
Scalability and efficiency have been improved.
AWS allows you to host the website in any geographic area, enhancing performance and efficiency in the locations where your website receives the most traffic. Furthermore, AWS infrastructure is built to be scalable from the start, with the ability to grow and shrink to match the changing needs of your website.
Enhanced Reliability
A website hosted on the AWS cloud is more resilient to spikes and calamities. Your files are spread across numerous servers so that if one fails, others can pick up the slack. In addition, AWS employs CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to replicate your servers, including apps and files. So that it may automatically start fully provisioned replacements if an issue arises. Strict Security and Compliance Requirements
AWS is based on the Shared Responsibility Model, security and compliance. Which clearly defines which aspects are their responsibility and which are yours. AWS secures the cloud infrastructure, including hardware, software, networking, and physical facilities. By employing data encryption between servers, constant threat monitoring and detection, and tight authentication. The client’s obligation determines by the AWS services chosen and the apps deployed by the customer.
AWS also obtains third-party validation for compliance regulations worldwide to ensure that your site complies. The compliance reports can be accessed via a free self-service site.
How Can AWS Cloud Consultants Assist?
While the cloud has numerous benefits, negotiating the options—such as how much security responsibility you should take on—can be difficult. Cloud consultants can help with this. Suffescom, as an AWS Consulting Company, has considerable experience assisting businesses in migrating to the AWS cloud. We can assist you in evaluating which AWS services your organization. It would benefit from an architect them in a way that best matches your website by working with you regularly.
