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Optimizing Your Modernization Journey with AWS

By : Mridula Grandhi
Book Image

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

Case study on AWS IaC tools

The following case study is a hypothetical use case of web apps and microservices.

Business goal

A major insurance company needed to focus on three main areas for digital modernization: customers, agility, and cloud-native development. The company was incurring technical debt due to the compounded problem of using third-party tools and managing deployment and infrastructure. The company decided to revamp its existing deployment scripts as well as its applications.

Modernizing using AWS

In order to achieve the goal, the company made a strategic long-term business decision to go with a serverless-first approach. The motive is to gain an edge in a competitive, global, and increasingly digital market. Migrating the company’s on-prem applications to the cloud and modernizing was a companywide goal.

Along with the serverless architecture, the company leveraged AWS CDN, to accelerate the definition of cloud application resources. The engineers...