AWS EXPERIENCE-BASED ACCELERATION
Not a workshop. Three days that ship.
Your team, AWS specialists and LSD Open engineers build on a real workload, together, in one intense sprint. You leave with working software and a pattern to repeat.
3
days of building, the EBA party
15 min
maximum wait on any blocker
1 or 2
real applications, not a demo
Certified
one of the first EBA partners in Africa and the Middle East
THE REAL BLOCKER
Why do 70% of cloud projects stall?
Moving to the cloud is not just a technology change, it is a culture change. Industry data shows that 70% of cloud adoption friction is non-technical. It is caused by organisational inertia, siloed teams, fear of breaking legacy systems and endless ticket queues.
Traditional consulting delivers a PDF roadmap that collects dust. LSD Open delivers a working outcome. We use the AWS-backed EBA methodology to replace weeks of meetings with days of doing.
THE EBA JOURNEY
Six steps. Scroll through them.
Step 1 · Week 1
Agree what success looks like.
Drivers, goals and success measures, tied to business KPIs. We pick one or two real applications to work on.
A vague cloud ambition
A measurable goal and real workloads
Step 2 · Week 2
Draw the target, form the teams.
The target architecture sets the workstreams: application, data, platform, security. A gap analysis shows what each team needs to learn.
Step 3 · Weeks 2 to 4
Learn by doing, before the party.
Immersion days close the gaps, hands-on in a real AWS sandbox. Nobody learns on the critical path.
Step 4 · Weeks 2 to 5
Plan it like a launch.
Stand-ups three times a week, a ready backlog and a command centre of decision makers who will be on call during the party.
Step 5 · 3 days
The EBA party.
Three days, every workstream building at once, blockers cleared in 15 minutes, demos every evening. It is meant to be fun, and it ships.
Months of meetings
Working software in three days
Step 6 · Next
Repeat the pattern.
The party leaves a proven blueprint. Your team runs it again on the next applications, with us alongside as needed.
IMMERSION DAYS
Close the skills gap first.
The gap analysis shows where each workstream falls short. Immersion days are hands-on sessions with AWS and LSD Open specialists, in a sandbox, on the exact services the EBA will use.
- One session per workstream: containers, streaming, GitOps, security
- Built on your target architecture, not generic training
- Your people arrive at the party ready to build
From gap to ready
HOW THE EBA PARTY WORKS
Three days. Four workstreams. One goal.
Every morning starts with a stand-up and the day’s goal. Every evening ends with a demo. Anything that blocks a team goes to the command centre and is cleared within 15 minutes.
Illustrative timeline. Each party has its own agenda, theme and goals.
Executive sponsor
Breaks down silos
Sets the goal and clears the path.
EBA leader
Keeps the energy high
Runs stand-ups, agendas and demos.
Workstream leads
Own the outcome
One per stream, raising blockers early.
AWS and LSD Open
Build alongside you
Specialists in the room, not on slides.
4 to 6 weeks
end to end, with stand-ups
3 days
of building together
15 minutes
maximum wait on a blocker
1 pattern
your team can repeat
EBA TYPES
Pick the outcome. We run the EBA.
Modernisation EBA
Monolith to services on Amazon EKS
MAP and WAF funding may apply.
Migration EBA
A migration wave, signed off live
MAP funding may apply.
Data EBA
Streaming and a governed lakehouse
MAP and BOX funding may apply.
AI EBA
A use case into production
Bedrock programme funding may apply.
FinOps EBA
Cost governance that sticks
WAF and MAP funding may apply.
Platform EBA
EKS with GitOps from day one
WAF and MAP funding may apply.
All AWS funding is subject to eligibility and AWS approval. We check it up front.
CLIENT SUCCESS STORY
The Purple Group modernised a legacy monolith in 3 days.
The Purple Group, the company behind the investment platform EasyEquities, had a vision to containerise everything. But a massive legacy .NET Framework monolith was holding them back. In a single Modernisation EBA with LSD Open and AWS, they achieved the impossible.
Months into days
Refactored a critical Client Entity API from .NET Framework 4 to .NET Core 8, running on Linux containers.
Weekends back
Implemented Argo Rollouts for blue/green deployments, ending the 3:00 AM maintenance windows.
Silo busting
DBAs and DevOps engineers collaborated to map unknown database dependencies for a future move to PostgreSQL.
“The EBA approach has demonstrated just how capable our people are when supported by the right process. The speed at which they delivered secure, high-impact business value was nothing short of extraordinary.” Paul Jansen van Vuuren, Chief Technical Officer, The Purple Group
THE VALUE
Tangible business benefits.
Speed to market
Reduce release cycles from months to hours.
Secure by design
Build compliance and security guardrails in from the very first line of code.
Skills transfer
Your team learns more in 3 days of EBA than in 6 months of training courses.
Cost efficiency
Identify waste and optimise the architecture for long-term savings.
Modernisation first
We look for opportunities to containerise on Amazon EKS and automate, not just patch servers.
AWS certified
An AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and a member of the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program.
NEXT STEP
Ready for your EBA party?
Tell us the workload. We will scope the EBA, check AWS funding and set the dates.