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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

Building a CCoE

When it comes to ensuring cloud transformation success, it is crucial for organizations to have the right skillset and structure in place. A proven way to optimize this strategy is to set up a centralized team that oversees cloud operations, called a CCoE. Some organizations call this internal body a cloud engineering, innovation council, or cloud platform team.

A CCoE is a centralized enterprise governance-functioning team that envisions and establishes a cloud strategy and creates governance principles and best practices for all the teams in the organization to ensure business outcomes with optimal usage of resources. This team typically comprises operations managers, system architects, application developers, network engineers, security analysts, database engineers, and IT managers.

As per Gartner:

Cloud center of excellence accelerates the uptake of new technologies and optimizes the core capabilities with higher efficiency and lower costs.”...