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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

Exploring the benefits of modernization

Many organizations, from start-ups to enterprises, face the challenge of operating in an entirely new digital arena. These organizations’ infrastructure is typically comprised of legacy systems; only a small portion of their technology is modernized. However, in the present digital world, it is important to run flexible and agile systems to overcome any hurdles and meet the emerging demands of digital business.

Let’s look at the potential benefits that modernization can bring.

Competitive advantage

Modernization empowers enterprises to incorporate modern technologies and integrate them with their platforms. Digital adoption across your organization enables you to stay ahead of competitors, who may still be contemplating whether to modernize or not. For long-term business viability, organizations need to be able to respond to and excel in any unforeseen circumstances.

Paying down technical debt

Managing technical debt...