I have a friend, managing own accounting company. It is real SMB segment with less than 10 employees.
He has classic on-premise infrastructure, but is very interested on moving to cloud.
Actual infrastructure state: 0. Windows workstations without AD or any another clever managing.
- File server with lot of customer's documents. He mounts the file storage as a drive to all workstations.
- On the file server he stores database for accounting software. Every workstation has a client of this software isntalled.
- Every 2 hours he makes automatical backup of the database and moves it on NAS.
- The NAS manages RAID, so he is sure he always have a backup copy.
Last days he said me, he wants to buy new server. From my point of view the old one is quite enough for his tasks, but he wants :)
I tried to study possible solutions with AWS for him. What I can offer him:
- WorkDocs as cloud file storage for customer's documents
- File Storage Gateway to store backup in S3 bucket (Glacier).
- Possible AWS Backup ?
What do you think about it? Have you any other ideas?