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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

Part 4: Cloud Economics, Compliance, and Governance

In this part, we will look at cloud operations and how to operate securely and efficiently on the cloud. We will dive deeper into the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the best practices you can apply to lower your cost of operations, improve IT infrastructure and staff productivity, decrease operational downtime, and achieve faster time to market. You will learn about operational excellence and the tools that Amazon has developed to operate on the cloud at scale while maintaining governance, security, and compliance for speed, automation, and innovation. We will wrap up by doing a recap of the important topics covered in the prior chapters and discuss emerging trends and technologies to prepare ourselves for the future model of building modern workloads.

This part comprises the following chapters:

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