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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

Exploring the phases of cloud migration

Cloud migration is a business-driven decision. Migrating to a cloud platform usually involves end-to-end business transformation, not just technical, and can be well represented by five phases, namely Discover, Plan, Migrate, Automate, and Optimize. The following phases present a framework that is key to a successful migration.

Phase 1 – Discover

The first and foundational phase for the rest of the phases in cloud migration is the Discover phase. Organizations not investing in this phase are bound to fail, especially if an organization affects many teams and touches applications with complex dependencies.

Understanding aspects such as the technologies used by the current workload's landscape, compliance requirements, dependencies within the applications, infrastructure needs, network, and cost structure helps you to identify relationships that cannot be found in any application implementation documentation. This context can...