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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

Case study for Amazon ECS

The case study in this section covers a customer’s journey of using Amazon ECS.

The business challenge

EducatEra is an educational technology company considered to have built an innovative platform that provides universal access to the best educational and interactive courses. The company partners with various top universities and organizations to offer online courses worldwide. With more than 15 million users across 150 countries, EducatEra has more than 2,000 courses to offer from 120 institutions. EducatEra had a large monolithic application and considered migrating from its on-premises infrastructure. A careful decision had to be made given that EducatEra is a risk-conscious company. They wanted to build an innovative platform and enhance their current application to support advancement in the education space and anticipate future business needs. They also wanted to implement DevOps practices and produce new courses at a faster rate. The company...