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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

Transforming Security on the Cloud Using AWS

With digital transformation on the radar of every company across any industry to drive opportunities, one core aspect that often gets neglected is security. Security can be the top weakest link of your business if not well planned. Businesses that are transforming to capture new user behaviors, and change their business models as a result, often depend on multiple aspects. Aspects such as technology, processes, and people changes can result in security flaws and risks if not properly planned. Building an adequate security strategy to protect your digital transformation remains one of the biggest tasks for executives.

Security is of paramount importance for any business to protect its applications from deliberate theft, leakage, integrity compromise, and deletion. Discovering flaws and vulnerabilities and taking remediation actions takes time and maturity. The Chief Information Security Officers (CSOs/CISOs), SecOps team, developers, and...