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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

Modernization recap – Breaking down your options

We learned about migration, which is the first step for any modernization efforts, in Chapter 3, Preparing for Cloud Migration, and discussed how a well-planned migration strategy can reduce the complexity of the migration process and set the stage for your legacy systems to be migrated successfully. The 6 Rs of cloud migration—which stand for relocate, re-host, re-platform, refactor, repurchase, and retire—include the standard patterns for cloud migration whereby you choose the right option depending on the state of your workload. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) helps you evaluate cloud readiness across eight dimensions, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 13.1 – AWS CAF

Figure 13.1 – AWS CAF

The modernization journey typically involves two key personas—builders and decision-makers. The following two sections outline the breakdown of strategies with a focus on these personas.

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