Amazon Web Services

The toolbox for unlimited computing power

Cloud computing offer unmatchable scale at unheard-of prices, but requires a shift in thinking which can be hard to get your head around.  Let the cloud computing experts at Stoneburn assist your business through this process

What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing is an extension of virtualisation and utility computing. Today, it is defined by many people as “on-demand self-service Internet infrastructure where you pay-as-you-go and use-only what you need, all managed by a browser, application or API”.

The world leader in cloud computing since 2006 is Amazon; their Amazon Web Services family includes both low-level services (virtual servers, storage) and higher-level (managed Java application hosting, managed databases) – all billed by the hour or the GB, and available at the click of a button.

Can you say this about your IT infrastructure?

  • You only pay for what you use and don’t need to overprovision for unpredictable spikes in demand
  • Resilient to failure from a disk to a datacenter (over a dozen worldwide datacenters available)
  • Under half the cost of a traditional datacenter
  • No up-front charges

How Stoneburn help

  • We help organisations understand how they can use AWS to reduce costs or improve go to market
  • Help define business cases to move to the cloud
  • Architect Amazon Web Services solutions
  • Implement and support them

Amazon Web Services offers technical building blocks at a great price. However, Amazon do not offer managed application solutions, or have traditional consultants you can hire for engagements. Instead, they have a network of global solutions providers, of which Stoneburn is a trusted partner.

AWS doesn’t offer expensive and reliable devices – it gives you a toolkit upon which you can build incredibly reliable architectures, while being honest with you that all computing gear fails eventually.

A journey to the cloud can be taken in steps – Stoneburn can help you identify the services that can immediately move to the cloud and then advise you on a future direction to ensure you take advantage of the new business opportunities afforded by instant, infinite scalability.

Many UK organisations need help to overcome the different barriers blocking the cloud benefits of Amazon Web Services. From building the business case, training of staff, ongoing infrastructure management and support or access to cloud savvy application development skills on platforms like Java, PHP, and .NET, Stoneburn can assist.

Stoneburn’s solution architects have designed infrastructures that cut hosting costs by half while introducing geographic redundancy with no extra effort!

Talk to Stoneburn today about how we can accelerate your move into the cloud.