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Optimizing Your Modernization Journey with AWS

By : Mridula Grandhi
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Optimizing Your Modernization Journey with AWS

By: Mridula Grandhi

Overview of this book

AWS cloud technologies help businesses scale and innovate, however, adopting modern architecture and applications can be a real challenge. This book is a comprehensive guide that ensures your switch to AWS services is smooth and hitch-free. It will enable you to make optimal decisions to bring out the best ROI from AWS cloud adoption. Beginning with nuances of cloud transformation on AWS, you’ll be able to plan and implement the migration steps. The book will facilitate your system modernization journey by getting you acquainted with various technical domains, namely, applications, databases, big data, analytics, networking, and security. Once you’ve learned about the different operations, budgeting, and management best practices such as the 6 Rs of migration approaches and the AWS Well-Architected Framework, you’ll be able to achieve operational excellence in cloud adoption. You’ll also learn how to deploy some of the important AWS tools and services with real-life case studies and use cases. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to successfully implement cloud migration and modernization on AWS and make decisions that best suit your organization.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Migrating to the Cloud
6
Part 2: Cloud Modernization – Application, Data, Analytics, and IT
12
Part 3: Security and Networking Transformation
15
Part 4: Cloud Economics, Compliance, and Governance

Serverless computing on AWS

Serverless on AWS is a technology to build and run applications using AWS services as building blocks and not think about managing the underlying infrastructure. AWS offers computing power to run your workloads at scale to meet the real-time demand of your businesses. AWS is responsible for handling all backend tasks such as computing, data storage, processing, and architecting for high availability.

There are serverless offerings across the three layers of the stack of a modern application: Compute, Integration, and Data Stores. We will go through compute and integration in this chapter.

In serverless computing, we have two main services: AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate.

AWS Lambda

When building serverless applications on AWS, AWS Lambda is one of the core services for running application code. AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that is event-driven, with which you can create and run self-contained applications. You can run code (supported...