AWS is the best place to build modern applications
With more than 500 million new apps expected to be built over the next few years, organizations will have to find balance between managing technology and building new features.
Modern applications are built with modular architectural patterns, serverless operational models, and agile developer processes. They allow you to innovate faster, reduce risk, accelerate time to market, and decrease your total cost of ownership (TCO).
Modernization is often a team-by-team and workload-by-workload journey. We recommend four ways to start modernization:
- Move to managed containers on AWS to simplify operations, and reduce management overhead
- Build new applications or features using serverless technologies, like AWS Lambda, purpose-built databases like Amazon DynamoDB, and development tools, like AWS Amplify and AWS CDK to maximize agility and accelerate development
- Choose from 15 relational and nonrelational purpose-built AWS databases to support microservices architecture and modern application needs like storing key-value pairs and documents
- Leverage our end-to-end portfolio of Dev+Ops services and our vast Partner Network to help develop and run apps faster and build applications at scale
Why build modern applications on AWS?
Speed to market
By speeding up build and release cycles and offloading operational overhead to AWS, organizations can better compete in the market and deliver reliable products and user experiences faster and cheaper.
Urbanbase launches services 20x faster with AWS
Orangetheory used Amplify Video to reduce development time from a week to an hour
Improve reliability
Automate test and release processes to reduce error rates and enhance monitoring at every stage of the development lifecycle, making modern applications more reliable at deployment.
Siemens decreases customer control system alerts by 90 percent and reduced infrastructure costs by 85 percent
Increase innovation
With a modular architecture, changes to any individual application component can be made quickly and with a lower risk to the whole application, so teams can experiment with new ideas more often.
Vanguard increased speed to market of microservices from three months to 24 hours
The right tool for each workload
Choose the right tools based on the needs of your organization and each unique workload.
iRobot chose Amazon SageMaker to run Kubeflow for its iRobot Genius Home Intelligence platform and AWS Lambda for its core WiFi-connected vacuums and application
Improve TCO
With a pay-for-value pricing model, modern applications reduce the cost of over-provisioning or paying for idle resources. By offloading infrastructure management, maintenance costs are also lower.
Reduce app development costs by 68 percent and lower your TCO with AWS
Modern application pathways
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Move to managed container services
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Build serverless applications
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Modernize your data infrastructure
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Deploy with modern Dev+Ops
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Move to managed container services
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Move to managed container services
Containerizing existing applications is often a first step toward modernization for many organizations. Use managed container services on AWS to reduce operational overhead while improving security, scalability, and reliability.Related AWS services
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Build serverless applications
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Build new apps with serverless technologies and tools
Build new, modern apps using serverless technologies and tools to shift developer focus toward innovation and accelerate time to market. Avoid managing physical servers while benefiting from automatic scaling, built-in high availability, and a pay-for-value billing model. AWS has the broadest set of serverless technologies for compute, integration and orchestration, and databases. And you can further accelerate development with native AWS tools and open-source frameworks.Related AWS services
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Modernize your data infrastructure
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Modernize with purpose-built databases
To modernize your apps, you are increasingly building with microservices architectures and choosing a new generation of purpose-built databases to meet your app's specific needs, like storing key-value pairs and documents. AWS offers you the broadest and deepest set of services with 15 relational and non-relational databases.Related AWS services
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Deploy with modern Dev+Ops
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Adopt a Modern Dev+Ops model
Modern Dev+Ops brings developers and operations closer by sharing ops tasks earlier and enhancing them with AI/ML. You can change your update cycles from months or years to just days while improving performance and security—delighting your customers and developers alike.Related AWS services
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Customers
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Coca-Cola freestyle
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Coca-Cola and AWS Reimagine the Future of Contactless Experiences
Coca-Cola launches a touchless fountain experience in 100 Days
Built on Coca-Cola’s existing AWS serverless architecture, the new contactless solution enables consumers to choose and pour drinks from their phones in seconds without having to create an account or download an app.
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Ryanair
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Ryanair delivers a COVID-19 wallet
Ryanair customers can upload their negative PCR tests, COVID-19 vaccination certificates, and other COVID-19 documents that may be required for EU travel with the documentation securely stored in Amazon S3.
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peacock
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Peacock achieves a fast and flawless launch
In only one year, Peacock created a simple, secure, scalable, and highly available system on AWS. Despite unforeseen obstacles like COVID-19 and the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, it was a flawless launch achieved right on time.
