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AWS – Amazon Web Services
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Why AWS – Strategy First
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the world's leading hyperscale cloud platforms with a broad portfolio of computing, storage, databases, analytics, AI/machine learning, security, and industry solutions.
AWS addresses the current needs of mid-sized and enterprise businesses: Today's IT strategies require combining high availability and scalability with time-to-market requirements, while simultaneously focusing on resilience, compliance, cost control, and innovation.
Hybrid to Cloud-Native: Architecture and Operations
Given the complexity that AWS offers, it's important to know that AWS architecture and operating models can be implemented incrementally. This allows companies to manage the transition from traditional on-premises infrastructures to modern cloud or cloud-native architectures while maintaining the crucial requirement of risk control.
One advantage of hybrid models is the ability to integrate existing landscapes and data centers with scalable cloud workloads. This not only protects existing investments but also increases innovation capacity.
AWS has long been known for its ability to meet regulatory requirements. AWS has further developed this approach with its European Sovereign Cloud (AWS ESC).
For those who don't currently plan to migrate to the ESC and prefer to monitor its performance externally, AWS continues to offer multi-account and landing zone concepts that focus on governance, security, cost control, and scalability. This remains one of AWS's greatest strengths, particularly for complex enterprise structures with multiple business units, subsidiaries, or compliance departments. Beyond the infrastructure itself, AWS provides a structured operating model that can be deliberately scaled and offers auditable IT governance.
AWS supports the following operating models:
- Hybrid Cloud: Integration of on-premises systems with cloud workloads
- Multi-account and landing zone architectures for governance and scaling
- Cloud-native and serverless for rapid innovation
- Disaster recovery and multi-region designs for business continuity
Cloud-native and serverless architectures offer the advantage of shortening innovation cycles, reducing operational overhead, and enabling finely granular, scalable resource utilization.
AWS Overview
AWS offers over 200 fully managed cloud services – from infrastructure (IaaS) and platform services (PaaS) to serverless, data, and AI services. Cost advantages, microservices, and agility are key benefits. IAM, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines (fail fast, fail often), as well as serverless and multi-region capabilities, are among the clear advantages of the AWS cloud computing platform.
The platform covers, among other things, the following core areas:
Computing
Like EC2, Lambda, Container
Storage
including S3, EBS, backup & archive storage
Databases
like RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora
Network & Content Delivery
Analytics & Big Data
Security, Identity & Compliance
AI/ML & Generative AI
z. B. Amazon Bedrock
Industry solutions
such as industry, finance, public sector, healthcare
AWS Use Cases – Including a Gradual Migration to the Cloud
Both classic enterprise workloads and modern cloud-native and AI scenarios are possible with AWS.
Companies can modernize existing applications through re-hosting or re-platforming, gradually transform legacy systems, or build new digital products designed from the outset for high availability, data intelligence, and global scalability.
The ability to implement resilient multi-region and disaster recovery architectures is particularly relevant here, ensuring business continuity, regulatory compliance, and operational stability, even in crisis situations.
Security & Compliance
AWS offers enterprises comprehensive readiness but, like all hyperscalers, follows the shared responsibility model. This means that AWS ensures the availability of the cloud infrastructure, while the customer is responsible for securing the configuration and workloads. A mature backup service in AWS cannot provide forensically verifiable or testable cyber recovery, nor is it sufficient for compliance with regulations like NIS2 and DORA – this is where cyber resilience concepts are needed. Contact us for a free consultation.
Key security and compliance features of AWS
AWS Compliance Standards
AWS meets numerous international compliance standards, including:
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- SOC 1 / SOC 2 / SOC 3
- PCI DSS
- GDPR support
- Industry and regional standards
AWS provides auditable controls and compliance documentation for regulated industries. Security in AWS is highly configurable, enabling governance, secure landing zones, and zero-trust architectures to significantly reduce risk.
More Innovative with AWS as a Strategic Platform
Today, companies face new challenges in terms of innovation, as we operate in a globally interconnected digital environment. AWS offers a strategic advantage here, not only by enabling them to maintain core business processes but also by leveraging their innovative capabilities.
AWS is versatile and adaptable to existing structures, not only technologically, but also in terms of architectural design, governance structures, and operating models. While cloud computing is becoming increasingly commonplace, its importance lies not only in infrastructure but also in strategic IT and business management.
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For questions – whether about AWS and AWS ESC, compliance and regulations, data security, or technological questions such as on-premises solutions, offsite copy or tape-to-cloud or others - simply contact me directly.
Philip Röder, Head of Business Development & Consulting
Phone +49 162 4196789