How does it work?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a global cloud platform that provides the building blocks to run modern digital businesses. Instead of purchasing and maintaining physical servers, networking equipment and storage, AWS allows you to use these resources on demand — securely, reliably and at global scale.
Think of AWS like a giant box of Lego bricks. It provides thousands of individual components — virtual servers, databases, storage systems, security controls, networking tools, monitoring services and more. Each service does a specific job. The real value comes from how those pieces are designed and connected to form a secure, scalable platform that supports your business.
AWS does not automatically “build your cloud” for you. It provides the components — but decisions still need to be made around:
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Security and access control
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Network design and connectivity
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Backup and disaster recovery
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Cost management and optimisation
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Scalability and performance
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Governance and compliance
When structured properly, AWS allows your systems to grow as your business grows. When structured poorly, it can become complex, inefficient and costly.
How to Prepare Before You Begin
You don’t need to know AWS deeply to get started. What helps most is clarity around:
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What systems or applications you want to run in the cloud
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Your growth plans over the next 2–3 years
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Compliance or industry requirements (if any)
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Your internal technical capability and support needs
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Your appetite for automation and modernisation
Having this context allows the right architecture decisions to be made from day one.
How Habitat3 Helps You Get Started
At Habitat3, we guide you through the entire early stage journey — from initial planning and design through to migration, build, security configuration and ongoing Cloud Operations.
We help you:
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Design a secure, well-architected AWS foundation
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Migrate existing workloads safely
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Build new platforms correctly from the start
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Implement Infrastructure as Code (such as Terraform) for repeatability
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Establish cost visibility and optimisation controls
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Ensure your environment remains secure, monitored and supported
Our goal is simple: to make AWS clear, structured and aligned with your business outcomes — so the cloud becomes a true enabler of growth.
This is how we build the perfect habitat for your AWS workloads.
Our experience delivers results
Case Study: Location IQ
Location iQ’s on-premises Windows environment had reached end of life. Their existing Active Directory and file servers were inefficient to maintain, lacked simple scalability, and posed increasing reliability risks. They needed to modernise their IT foundation while ensuring continuity and data security were maintained.
