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Realize Enterprise Architecture with AWS and SAFe

By : Rajnish Harjika
Book Image

Realize Enterprise Architecture with AWS and SAFe

By: Rajnish Harjika

Overview of this book

Agile implementation of enterprise architecture (EA) in the cloud is a powerful organizational tool, but it is challenging, particularly for architects who are used to on-premises environments. This in-depth guide will tell you all you need to know to reap the benefits of applying EA in your organization to achieve operational efficiency. Starting with an overview of the foundations of enterprise architecture, you'll see how it can be applied to AWS as well as explore the frameworks AWS provides for EA, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework. That's not all – the book shows you how these frameworks align with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) architecture development method (ADM) and the Zachman Framework so that you can choose the right fit for your organization. As you advance, you'll learn how to apply SAFe to make your organization agile as well as efficient. Once you've gotten to grips with the theory, you can explore use cases and take a quiz at the end of the book to test yourself and see how EA is applied in practice. By the end of this enterprise architecture book, you'll have the skills and knowledge required to apply EA in the cloud with AWS and drive your organization to become super-efficient and agile.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Enterprise Architecture Foundation and Implementation
5
Part 2 – Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
9
Part 3 – SAFe in EA and the Cloud
12
Part 4 – Setting Up an EA

SAFe and scaled agile frameworks

This chapter discusses SAFe, one of the scaled agile frameworks. These frameworks are designed to help large organizations adopt lean and agile practices. Based on SAFe, enterprise architecture promotes innovation and engineering practices and helps teams coordinate. In addition to providing strategic guidance and reference architectures, enterprise architects are instrumental in helping developers implement standardized standards. When the standards of a company do not align, rework may be necessary. Additionally, silos within an organization can be broken down.

In addition, enterprise architecture emphasizes the importance of matching computing resources to business needs. Getting a company’s strategies in line with the information produced, its support infrastructure, and its current processes is critical to success. Organizations obtain success by releasing separate information at regular intervals. To create seamless end-to-end value...