A company is considering a migration from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The company’s IT team needs to offload support of the workload. What should the IT team do to accomplish this goal?

AWS Managed Services (AMS) is designed to offload the operational burden of infrastructure management. It helps enterprises by provisioning, running, and supporting their AWS infrastructure, allowing the company's IT team to focus on applications rather than underlying operations. AMS automates common activities such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services. This directly addresses the company's goal of offloading workload support.

B. Building hardware refreshes into the calendar is an on-premises operational model that cloud migration aims to eliminate.
C. Using Amazon ECS on EC2 instances still requires the IT team to manage the underlying EC2 instances, which does not fully offload support.
D. Overprovisioning is an inefficient and costly strategy that cloud elasticity helps avoid; it does not offload the support burden.

1. AWS Managed Services. (n.d.). AWS Managed Services Features. Retrieved from aws.amazon.com/managed-services/features/. In the "How it works" section, it states, "AWS Managed Services (AMS) operates AWS on your behalf, providing a secure and compliant AWS Landing Zone, a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimization, and day-to-day infrastructure management."

2. AWS Whitepapers. (2022, April). Overview of Amazon Web Services. WP-1. Page 41. "AWS Managed Services helps you operate your AWS infrastructure more efficiently and securely. It provides ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure so you can focus on your applications."