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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

Diving deep into containers

In the past few years, container technology has rapidly grown in popularity, and technology leaders have embraced this technology in their business’s application modernization strategy.

The rise of containers

Having a diverse portfolio of applications, cloud, and on-premises-based infrastructure makes it difficult for any business to transform. Container technology redefines how your applications need to be packaged such that they can run with isolated dependencies. Containers have changed the dynamic of application modernization and how modern IT infrastructure can be effectively managed in the cloud. The main idea behind this technology is for businesses to be able to run portable software without having to worry about the computing runtime environment: application and its dependencies, libraries or any other configuration files needed to run them.

Container

A container is a lightweight and stand-alone executable package of application...