McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is moving to the cloud to enable global delivery, improve user experience, reduce costs, streamline processes, and automate operations. When selecting a partner, MHE required deep AWS expertise, a global delivery footprint, the ability to meet hybrid infrastructure requirements, strong security and resiliency, and superior support. MHE's cloud journey involved planning applications for AWS, designing a hybrid architecture, and going live globally while testing extensively and establishing governance over the hybrid environment. Ongoing management includes a cloud management portal, analytics, and governance/change control.