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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

Summary

The role of enterprise architects is to take on these problems head-on by providing a roadmap to manage and reduce complexity, which contributes directly to reducing costs. Enterprise architects ensure that IT is aligned with business goals and standards.

Within an EA, the primary objective is to ensure a reduced cost of business operation, an agile organization and workflow, shared business capabilities and access across the organization, and more. In the light of these goals, enterprise architects fit best in multiple use cases such as mergers, integrations, risk assessment, management, and so on. The EA also includes governing principles that discuss how business strategy can be realized through IT implementation.

In the absence of stakeholder participation, EA programs often end up being a massive failure. EA often focuses only on technology, which has a much narrower scope than technical architecture. Business, information, and solutions architectures are all included...