{"id":15726,"date":"2022-03-07T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/blog\/six-steps-for-cloud-transformation-success\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:02:29","slug":"six-steps-for-cloud-transformation-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/blog\/six-steps-for-cloud-transformation-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Steps for Cloud Transformation Success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprise executives is looking to leverage technology to enact change. As a result, organizations are laser-focused on adopting or accelerating their use of all things cloud. In fact, according to a May 2021 survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner, 83% of CEOs plan to increase investments in digital capabilities this year compared to 2020 funding levels.<\/p>\n

At NorthBay Solutions, we\u2019ve guided more than 300 customers through digital transformation and cloud migration journey, and have leveraged our AWS cloud expertise to help them to become highly cloud proficient organizations.<\/p>\n

Thus, we wanted to share our six steps for cloud transformation success<\/strong>, based on the learnings we\u2019ve gleaned over the last several years while working with organizations across industries and geographies.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Step One: Make the Business Case for Cloud<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>

Cloud disrupts how teams collaborate, how organizations take products and services to market, and how sales teams engage with customers and get compensated. This is why it\u2019s absolutely crucial that all stakeholders fully understand not only the opportunities that cloud enables, the TCO of the deployment, as well as the security, compliance, and data management considerations. Be sure to develop a comprehensive migration plan that goes beyond the technical aspects to include people and processes as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Step Two: Identify the Right Applications for Cloud Migration<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>

More often than not, modern applications are built for the cloud, and delivered from the cloud as services that are paid for based on use. But the legacy applications that many organizations run in on-premise data centers each have their proprietary design, which means it\u2019s not possible to simply \u2018lift and shift\u2019 them to the cloud. Some might need to be fully refactored - or even retired. Assessing your architecture and its complexity before moving forward is the most efficient and cost-effective way to maximize ROI. NorthBay can work with you to determine application readiness, prioritize which to migrate to the cloud first, and take you through the application and data modernization<\/a> process.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Step Three: Select a Cloud Service Provider<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>

Once you have analyzed and inventoried your environment you are ready to determine what type of cloud environment you need and choose the right cloud provider. While each cloud service provider has its own architecture and its own set of characteristics, licensing, and support capabilities, AWS is the undisputed leader based on its reliability, scalability, flexibility, and ease of use. This is why NorthBay solutions is a long-standing AWS premier consulting partner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When assessing a cloud provider, it helps to first answer the following four questions:<\/p>\n