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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

Choosing a cloud migration strategy checklist

Here is a checklist that you can use to drive a good cloud migration strategy plan. You can add any organization-specific items on top of this checklist, but the following set of items will help you get a good kick start:

  • Do you have the scope of the strategy?
  • Do you have alignment with the larger strategic initiative of your organization?
  • Are the business objectives driving your migration clear?
  • Do you have high-level outcomes mapped to the business objectives?
  • Do you have the right migration team?
  • Did you pick the cloud provider?
  • Is the current state of your organization explained clearly?
  • Is the desired state for cloud migration and adoption along with the KPIs to measure and report on the success clear?
  • Do you have a high-level path to cloud migration?
  • Are risks called out clearly?
  • Are there any vendor lock-ins?
  • Did you assess the cloud migration costs?
  • Are stakeholders of the...