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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

Preparing for Cloud Migration

In the previous chapter, we discussed why it is important to have a cloud-first mindset and how organizations are thinking of moving to the cloud amid the growing challenges of worldwide disruptions. Both business and technical teams need to accept cultural changes and support each other’s teams through the migration journey.

This chapter will prepare you to succeed in cloud migration by looking at a cloud migration strategy as a systematic and phased approach but not as a tactical technical undertaking. The cloud migration services market is growing rapidly, and it is important to know the key considerations when choosing the right partner for cloud migration. We will discuss in detail various things to be aware of as you make these choices in this chapter.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Learning about cloud migration insights
  • Choosing the right cloud partner for your business
  • Unraveling the multi...