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Two concerns drive this hesitancy: unpredictable costs and security governance. Organisations that have spent decades managing physical infrastructure understand their capital expenditure models and the shift to operational expenditure, where costs can scale unexpectedly, represents a loss of control that leadership teams find uncomfortable.

When data centres sit within your building, security boundaries feel tangible. Moving to the cloud requires trusting a shared responsibility model that can feel abstract.

Yet these concerns obscure a bigger risk: competitive stagnation.

The case for AWS migration The data tells a clear story. Modernising on AWS enables streamlined operational practices that lead to measurable results: infrastructure costs drop by an average of 20 % through elastic scaling and elimination of over-provisioned capacity, and administrator productivity increases by 66 % as teams automate routine maintenance and patching.

Time-to-market improves dramatically. New features reach production 43 % faster through rapid provisioning and deployment. Staff can redirect 29 % more of their focus toward innovation rather than maintaining infrastructure. Security incidents decrease by 45 % through AWS’ s shared responsibility model and continuous updates. But these benefits only materialise with proper cost governance. Without disciplined FinOps practices, the elasticity that makes cloud powerful transforms cost savings into budget overruns.

110 November 2025