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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

Mastering cloud migration using AWS

AWS offers a wide range of migration products, and this section will focus on how each of the AWS services shown in the following screenshot can help organizations of all sizes to migrate their workloads to the cloud:

Figure 4.9 – AWS services for cloud migration

Figure 4.9 – AWS services for cloud migration

AWS Migration Hub

AWS Migration Hub provides you the tools to store, plan, execute, and track your IT asset inventory data migration to AWS. With this service, you can gather information such as actual usage, application components, and infrastructure dependencies of workloads. AWS Migration Hub generates optimal migration strategy and recommendations for your business case to migrate and modernize at scale. Its simple and intuitive migration dashboards show metrics and the latest statuses of your migrations so that you can better understand their progress as well as identify any issues early on.

AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Application...