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Let’s Architect! Streamlining business with migration and modernization
Many customers migrate their systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to increase their competitive edge and drive business value. To maximize the benefits of a cloud migration, companies tend to move their applications in conjunction with modernization initiatives. These joined efforts help your applications gain more agility, scalability, and resilience. Modernizing the portfolio of workloads with AWS means that you can re-platform, refactor, or replace these workloads by using containers, serverless technologies, purpose-built data stores, and software automation. These functionalities allow you to benefit from the best of the AWS agility and total cost optimization (TCO) benefits.
In this edition of Let’s Architect! we share hands-on activities, customer stories, and tips and tricks to migrate and modernize your applications with AWS.
Migrating to the cloud: What is the cost of doing nothing?
Would you think that small companies always migrate faster than large enterprises? Actually, cloud migration speed doesn’t necessarily depend on the size of the business! Company size is not a clear indicator of migration and modernization success, but a shift of culture and mindset is essential for successful company evolution.
When it comes to migration, the cost of doing nothing is not just financial: Businesses can also expect a slower pace of innovation and a higher security burden. This video analyzes the financial benefits of migration and shares mental models for approaching an AWS cloud migration, and Marriott team members explain how they planned their migration and the lessons learned along the way.
Take me to this re:Invent 2022 video!
Benefits of an early migration start
Modernization pathways for a legacy .NET Framework monolithic application on AWS
Organizations aim to deliver the best technological solutions based on customer needs. At any stage in their cloud adoption journey, businesses often end up managing and building monolithic applications. Let’s explore a migration path for a monolithic .NET Framework application to a modern microservices-based stack on AWS, and discuss AWS tools to break the monolith into microservices and containerize applications.
Cost optimization is another key factor for modernizing your workloads and solutions include moving to Linux-based systems or using open-source database engines. This Migrate and Modernize enterprise workloads with AWS video walks you through the process of migrating and modernizing enterprise workloads with AWS.
Take me to this blog post with more detail!
A modernized microservices-based rearchitecture
Implementing a serverless-first strategy in an enterprise
Organizations of all sizes want to benefit from the agility, cost savings, and developer experience that serverless architectures can provide on AWS. For large enterprises, the return on investment (ROI) can be massive, but overcoming architecture inertia while ensuring security best practices and governance stay in place is a hurdle that many struggle with. In this lightning talk, learn how your organization can implement a serverless-first strategy to overcome these obstacles. Delta Air Lines shares the story of making serverless-first a reality as part of their AWS journey.
Benefits of serverless
Application Migration with AWS
This workshop shows you how to migrate and modernize a fictional application to the AWS Cloud by:
- Performing a database migration
- Migrating and modernizing your web server using different migration strategies (for example, breaking down the monolith into containers)
- Teaching you how to improve Operation excellence, Security, Performance efficiency, and Cost optimization of the deployed architecture by following these pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Different migration strategies for web servers
See you next time!
Thanks for exploring architecture tools and resources with us!
Next time we’ll talk about distributed systems with containers.
To find all the posts from this series, check out the Let’s Architect! page of the AWS Architecture Blog.