Perficient and AWS vs. Technical Debt: How AI Is Accelerating Modernization

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For years, technical debt has been treated as something organizations could manage over time and chip away at between larger priorities. That’s no longer the case.

Today, technical debt is actively working against transformation. It’s slowing down cloud adoption, increasing costs, and limiting how quickly organizations can respond to change. And in many cases, it’s becoming the biggest barrier to modernization itself.

At Perficient, we’re seeing this challenge play out across industries as organizations face increasing pressure to modernize infrastructure, applications, and development practices without disrupting the business.

What has changed is the scale, but also the urgency.

Infrastructure, Applications, and Legacy Systems Are Breaking in Different Ways

Across enterprise environments, multiple pressure points are converging.

The first is happening at the infrastructure layer. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMwarehas forced organizations to re-evaluate long-standing virtualization strategies almost overnight. Pricing models have shifted, licensing costs have increased dramatically, and systems that...

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