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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 Networking on the Cloud Using AWS

Cloud computing has undoubtedly become a transformative force in the IT world. Resource sharing is the primary focus of cloud computing and networking is one of the core components to enable cloud computing. With the advent of cloud services, networking can empower data centers to unilaterally provision computing capabilities such as storage, OS, servers, and many more. Contrary to traditional data centers, virtualization and cloud computing touch each and every component that can exist anywhere on any server. That makes networking a strategic element for the delivery of cloud-based services to connect the systems and provision and scale the resources to meet end user requirements.

Networking on the cloud needs to be robust as the computational density increases in the cloud environment. Thus, it is essential for organizations to transition to the cloud effectively and architect their networking with the appropriate controls, routing...