Migrate your existing applications to AWS Cloud: A comprehensive guide
A comprehensive guide describing how to migrate your applications to the AWS Cloud. Explore AWS Cloud’s importance, benefits, planning, security, and more for a successful transition.
- Vast service portfolio: AWS offers over 200 services, ensuring that you'll find the right tools for your migration.
- Global reach: With data centers in regions across the world, AWS provides low-latency access to your applications.
- Strong security: AWS employs robust security measures, including encryption, access controls and compliance certifications.
- Extensive support: The AWS ecosystem includes a vast network of partners and resources to support your migration journey.
- Inventory of existing applications: Create a comprehensive list of all the applications currently in use within your organization. Categorize them based on their importance and interdependencies.
- Dependency mapping: Identify the relationships between applications, data and infrastructure. This mapping will help determine the migration sequence.
- What do you want to achieve with this migration?
- Are you looking to reduce costs, improve performance, or enhance scalability?
- Do you have specific compliance or security requirements?
- IT teams: Infrastructure, development and operations teams.
- Business units: Those who understand the application's impact on business processes.
- Compliance and security teams: To ensure regulatory requirements are met.
- Amazon EC2: Virtual servers in the cloud
- AWS Lambda: Serverless computing for event-driven applications
- Amazon S3: Scalable object storage
- Amazon EBS: Block storage for EC2 instances
- Amazon RDS: Manage relational databases
- Amazon DynamoDB: Fully managed NoSQL database
- Rehosting: Lift and shift your applications to AWS with minimal changes.
- Replatforming: Make some optimizations while moving to AWS.
- Refactoring: Rewrite or redesign applications for the cloud.