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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

Fraud and anomaly detection using AWS

Enterprises have the majority of their businesses running online and have to be constantly on the lookout for fraudulent activities such as payments with stolen credit cards. AWS has a stack of services such as AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS IoT Device Defender to evaluate, record, track, automate, and protect resources on the cloud.

AWS Security Hub

AWS Security Hub gives you a consolidated view of your enterprise’s security posture in AWS. This helps you to keep track of your environment and validate against the security standards and the latest AWS security recommendations. Security Hub overlaps with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, but it is doesn't replace them. There are benefits to using both Security Hub and SIEM together to get the best out of both tools. Doing so gives you a thorough view of security, operations, and compliance data.

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