People, process, and technology

A successful digital transformation is more than simply digitizing data and moving it to the cloud. The process should include evolving the needs, organization, and culture of the enterprise. Organizations must transform their people, processes, and technologies to be successful in the cloud. Embracing the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud enables governments and public sector organizations to move away from their reliance on outdated traditional IT hosted in on-site data centers so they can offer innovative opportunities to better serve citizens, improve security, and cut costs. The expectations of an increasingly digital citizenry are high, yet all levels of government face budgetary and human resource constraints. Cloud computing can help government organizations increase innovation, agility, and resiliency, all while reducing costs.

Although many public sector organizations recognize the need to transform, how to guidance is often missing. This whitepaper provides a phased approach that governments can use to break down steps into segments. This will help them take advantage of the cloud, reduce cost, and transform the way they deliver on their mission, from initial vision to establishing cloud centers of excellence and measuring performance. The prescriptive guidance in this document provides pragmatic and tactical advice for the initial setup activities, and best practices extrapolated from working with a large number of customers.