A well-executed application modernization strategy places the business need at its core, prioritizing technologies accordingly. As organizations increasingly embrace the cloud, there arises a demand for accelerated cloud adoption and a prescriptive approach to application modernization. This challenge by dividing the modernization roadmap into three distinct phases: assess, modernize, and manage. This strategy for assessing and modernizing applications, drawing upon the extensive experience of our Professional Services team in assisting AWS customers with their cloud adoption and application modernization endeavors.

Process

• Assessment : a series of questions that help to understand processes, architecture, and business drivers
• Interviews : Review assessment and workload overviews for : business goals, processes, architecture

Results

• Processes : Opportunities to streamline processes leveraging automation and Operations as Code
• Architecture : Review current and future state architecture
• Epics : A list of steps to help progress the workload towards the future state