AWS workload planning
Map applications, dependencies, users, data, performance, and recovery expectations before selecting services.
08 / Public cloud
Amazon Web Services, with the workload first.
Compare AWS services around the applications, data, access, security, and operating responsibilities your business can support.
A cloud platform has depth. The useful choice is the part that serves the work without creating avoidable complexity.
01 / Overview
Use AWS where it makes the business stronger.
AWS can support infrastructure, storage, databases, backup, analytics, applications, and recovery. Its breadth is valuable when the business has a clear workload, access model, security plan, and way to manage the environment over time.
We help you compare AWS with other public cloud, private cloud, hosted, and hybrid paths. The recommendation starts with what the application needs and what your team is prepared to operate.
02 / What we help with
The useful details behind the decision.
We help connect the service to the users, locations, applications, and support model that make it work in practice.
Compute and storage
Compare virtual machines, containers, storage, databases, and managed services around the workload rather than the catalog.
Backup and disaster recovery
Design copies, retention, recovery priorities, testing, and access so cloud continuity is more than an assumption.
Identity and security
Plan accounts, roles, keys, network boundaries, logging, monitoring, and the controls people will maintain.
Hybrid connectivity
Connect AWS to offices, private environments, users, and other clouds through a clear and supportable network path.
Governance and support
Clarify ownership, change control, usage review, documentation, and the support model after implementation.
03 / Who it’s for
Built around the business behind the system.
The right design changes with the work. Here are a few of the local businesses and operating models we help think through.
Healthcare
Balance application access, patient workflows, privacy, recovery, and the operational support behind cloud systems.
Retail and hospitality
Support customer-facing applications, inventory, reservations, files, analytics, and continuity across locations.
Professional services
Make client work, collaboration, data access, and recovery easier to manage as teams and applications change.
Manufacturing and logistics
Connect planning, inventory, operations, reporting, and site dependencies to the right cloud environment.
Technology teams
Compare platform capabilities, governance, connectivity, and operating effort around the workloads being built.
Growing businesses
Create a cloud path that leaves room for new users, locations, applications, and more accountable support.
04 / How we work
A simpler path through a complicated choice.
Good advice starts with context and stays useful through the handoff.
Understand
We listen before we prescribe.We map your current setup, friction points, users, locations, and priorities so the recommendation starts with the real business.
Compare
We make the tradeoffs visible.We evaluate providers and paths side by side, then explain fit, assumptions, service terms, and the work required to move forward.
Support
We stay for the handoff.From implementation through ongoing optimization, we help keep the moving parts connected and accountable.
05 / The Salish point of view
Platform choice with fewer blind spots.
We are vendor-neutral and help compare AWS against the workload, the team, and the broader technology environment. Providers may compensate us when you choose a service. We do not promise savings or a specific AWS outcome; scope and any fees are explained before work begins.
Ask a practical questionLocal context
See the work in your market.
Our city pages add local context to the same clear comparison process. Start with the market closest to your business.
06 / Questions, answered
Useful answers before the first conversation.
Direct answers are a better starting point than a generic feature list.
Bring us your questionWhat can a business use AWS for?
Businesses use AWS for hosted applications, virtual servers, storage, databases, backup, disaster recovery, analytics, development environments, and other managed cloud services. The right choice depends on the workload and operating model.
Is AWS a good fit for a small or growing business?
It can be, when the workloads, access, security, cost controls, and support responsibilities are clear. A hosted or private environment may be simpler for some businesses, so we compare the paths.
Can AWS replace our local servers?
It can for some workloads, but migration depends on application dependencies, data, licensing, connectivity, security, recovery, and how the team will administer the environment.
How do AWS and Microsoft Azure differ?
AWS and Azure are separate public cloud platforms with overlapping infrastructure and managed services. Fit depends on existing identity, applications, skills, policies, integrations, and support needs. We can compare them without assuming one is right.
How much does AWS guidance cost?
In many cases, providers compensate us when you choose a service. If a project includes fees, we explain the scope and fees before work begins; there is no savings guarantee.
A practical next step
Let’s put the workload before the cloud label.
Tell us what you are building, moving, protecting, or supporting. We will help compare an AWS path with the surrounding network, security, and operating work.