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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

Part 2: Cloud Modernization – Application, Data, Analytics, and IT

This part creates a baseline on cloud modernization for businesses to take their cloud journey a step ahead and drive growth. We will deep-dive into why modernization matters for any businesses that has invested heavily in building its legacy systems. We will cover application modernization patterns and the tools available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for building modern applications on the cloud. You will learn about application modernization strategies, design patterns to decompose monolithic applications into microservices, and the best practices to apply while building a plan for your modernization efforts. We will look into application integration patterns for microservices and review asynchronous messaging for building loosely coupled systems at scale. We will introduce data infrastructure modernization and discuss its importance in today’s world, where data is everything when it comes to making...