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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

Learning about cloud migration insights

It is easy to overlook the essentials of cloud migration when you are deep into the weeds of it. There is a broad range of migration considerations that each organization needs to make while working closely with the stakeholders.

Let’s look at some key insights of cloud migration that will apply to every organization. As you make cloud choices throughout your journey, you will find these learnings will guide your cloud strategy.

Begin with cost savings, evolve with innovation

The first factor that drives many organizations to the cloud is cost reduction. Reducing operational costs for smaller start-ups or large organizations is a key aspect for them to invest in the elastic model of a cloud platform. Focusing on an incremental approach enables many companies to expand their evolution to domains such as security, performance, and innovation. Businesses are no longer trapped in a data center and its software and can take ideas from...