The cloud has become essential to modernizing IT and enabling digital initiatives for organizations large and small. Organizations are in the midst of their cloud journey and seek to accelerate innovation, increase efficiency, and optimize IT spend. Cloud migration typically starts by “lifting and shifting” existing workloads to the cloud. However, merely shifting applications and data from on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms in a bulk cloud migration does not unlock the full potential of the cloud. Companies also need to refactor their applications, for example, by leveraging managed cloud services such as Amazon DynamoDB instead of maintaining their own NoSQL database.