Working as a digital transformation consultant for the last decade, one of the most notable trends I’ve seen is the move from on-premises systems to cloud services.
In the early days, this meant moving physical servers from company-owned data centers, to virtualized copies of said physical servers on a cloud hosted data center. While this offered some benefits in terms of the ability to scale and reduced the overhead of maintaining your own data center, it brought with it many of the traditional problems around the security within the servers themselves: you’re still responsible for patching servers, and sure, you may gain some physical security benefits, but ultimately it’s a lot of work for little reward.
Then the tide began to turn, IT professionals found the real silver lining to the cloud: instead of simply moving servers around, we realised life could be a whole lot better when leaning into managed services provided by cloud hosting providers. Building an application as cloud-first and leveraging those benefits, like AWS, offered huge potential rewards. The concept of serverless was born.
In this brave new world, you never need to worry about patching servers or upgrading your database, and you can depend on excellent physical and virtual out-of-the-box security as standard. It’s like you’ve hired the best minds in computer science to worry about all those difficult problems that take time, allowing you to focus on the important things, like delivering more business benefits to your customers.
At Enroly we rode this wave at the right time, and cloud-first, serverless products are in our DNA. We built our application with AWS in mind, and now we reap the benefits of up-to-the-minute server patching, 99.99999% availability in our infrastructure, best-in-class cryptography, and simple but effective user management, all built into a system which scales seamlessly. And here’s the best part: we don't have to think about it.
That frees up my development teams to innovate, and to deliver excellence, safely, securely and very quickly.
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