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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

SRE on AWS

As the world shifts toward cloud evolution, the reliability of all types of applications running on the cloud has become a critical business imperative. The cloud changes the way we think about managing systems. The focus has shifted from hardware to software and from manual processes to automated tasks. SRE is one such practice that focuses on building sturdy, flexible systems with continuous improvement and automation at its core.

What is SRE?

SRE is the process of automating IT infrastructure tasks to improve the reliability of scalable software systems. Tasks can range from change management, system management, incident response, and application monitoring. The SRE practice aims to improve the stability and quality of the service that is being made available to the end users. You can see a depiction of SRE in the following diagram:

Figure 12.5 – SRE

Figure 12.5 – SRE

As shown in Figure 12.5, SRE sits right at the crossroads of operations, engineering...