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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

Introduction to the cloud

Many aspects of our everyday life have been transformed by ever-evolving digital solutions. Technology is changing rapidly, and industries are adapting to these changes at a rapid pace. The cloud has become the dominant term in technology in the past few years and the impact it’s brought to businesses is beyond resounding. Before we learn more about cloud transformation, let’s look at the cloud and what cloud computing is.

Cloud transformation

Cloud transformation is the step-by-step process of moving your workloads from local servers to the cloud. It is a process that brings technology and organizational processes together to accelerate the development, implementation, and delivery of new services.

The cloud is referred to as a collection of software, servers, storage, databases, networking, analytics, and intelligence that can be accessed via the internet instead of being locally available on your computer or device. These services are delivered through data centers located across the globe and linked through the internet.

The following diagram depicts the use of cloud computing and the accessibility of various devices via the cloud:

Figure 1.1 – Cloud computing

Figure 1.1 – Cloud computing

Before we dive deep into cloud computing, let’s learn how we got here and how cloud computing began.