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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

Understanding Cloud Migration

With the previous chapter, we were able to establish how vital the cloud is to achieving a transformational shift and enabling you to become cost-efficient, agile, and innovative in how you operate your businesses. However, many enterprises experience fear, uncertainty, and doubt when they are at the beginning of their cloud migration journey, resulting in resisting the change. Some industry segments see the cloud as a hindrance in that they are concerned about the cost and effort it takes to move to the cloud, while others are hesitant about storing data from a compliance or security perspective.

This chapter will give you an understanding of cloud migration and what is involved to make the transition happen and will provide a detailed navigation to overcome the roadblocks that can potentially slow down your transition to the cloud. Using this as a guide, you can build a mental model to take on cloud migration efforts with an effective understanding...