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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

Data case studies on AWS

In this section, I will introduce you to a few organizations that have successfully transformed their business processes. These businesses were able to enhance their customer’s experience by modernizing their legacy data platforms and transforming to leverage fully managed database AWS services that we learned about in the previous sections.

Case study – Amazon Aurora

This case study focuses on how businesses can evolve their business applications using Amazon Aurora.

The business case and challenge

A leading online travel web portal, TRVZ, operates across 70 countries and decided to innovate its global payments system. TRVZ caters to both consumers’ and partners’ payments across their global platform business. As the company witnessed an increase in traffic, transactions took longer to run and created a cascading effect of performance and latency issues. TRVZ acquired a commercial database, SQL server, and over the years...