An insurance company rebuilt its decades-old legacy enterprise platform and moved it to the cloud in under nine months, which is faster than the typical two to three years for such a migration. The company tested various cloud providers and found that Google provided the best performance across price, speed, and supporting open source applications. The company worked to change its culture to embrace cloud-native development and a "test and learn" approach. After nine months, the company's entire enterprise architecture was migrated to the cloud using a combination of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, allowing it to innovate more easily and put budgets toward growth. The story provides lessons for South African businesses on embracing cloud technologies to avoid falling behind