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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

Introducing analytics modernization

Data is the strongest asset for any business, and having a modern analytics ecosystem that is scalable, agile, and future-ready can help you stay ahead of how you can serve your customers. Analytics modernization is not just about moving to the cloud but rethinking how you use analytics as an organization. A balanced approach, including crucial aspects such as data strategy, data architecture, data management and governance, analytics tools, and the right people will help you to acknowledge a modern data architecture.

Data movement

Data explosion is prevalent in all organizations where the data volumes are growing dramatically from terabytes to petabytes and exabytes. When it comes to the data movement, here are the different types:

  • Inside out: This is where you store data on-premise and move a portion of data to the purpose-built data stores for additional analytics
  • Outside in: This is where you store data in purpose-built data...