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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how today’s cloud ecosystem has a variety of factors to consider before planning and preparing for cloud migration. We learned about cloud migration insights that will help you plan better, move faster, and operate simpler. Multi-cloud and single cloud being the buzzwords, we broke these down and discovered their benefits, challenges, and how to develop a strategy to handle multi-cloud deployments.

We also looked at numerous factors that influence the decision to choose a solid CSP to help you innovate your business faster and deliver results that matter to your business. In the next chapter, we will dive deeper into cloud migration strategies so that you can design your migration journey with a better understanding of industry insights before you make the actual move.