Rocky Long is the IT Manager at Risk Administration Services, Inc (RAS) in Sioux Falls, SD. He has been driving IT tactics and strategy for 5+ years at RAS. Rocky is an AWS Cloud Practitioner and has led a significant lift-and-shift migration of RAS's traditional data center to Amazon's AWS Public Cloud. He has spent the last few years adding constant maturity to the cloud environment including setting up a hot recovery site from the get-go, and performing parallel disaster recovery tests within minutes. Rocky's has added business value at RAS through company-wide education, commissioning a Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) system in record time, increasing innovation capabilities in the cloud, and operating efficient help desk and systems engineering units. Prior to RAS, Rocky has worked in public safety software, manufacturing, and government contracting.