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Book Description

Bring agility, cost savings, and a competitive edge to your business by migrating your IT infrastructure to AWS. Ideal for executive leadership, senior leadership, and engineering and IT managers, this practical book examines the advantages, disadvantages, and common pitfalls possible when moving your operations to the cloud.

Author Jeff Armstrong brings years of practical hands-on experience helping dozens of enterprises make this corporate change. You’ll explore real-world examples of how organizations have made—or attempted to make—this wide-ranging transition. With this guide, you’ll be better prepared to objectively evaluate your migration before, during, and after the process so you can ensure success.

By the end of this book, you’ll understand:

  • Benefits and drawbacks of migrating to AWS
  • Risks to your business and technology
  • Methods for properly accessing workloads
  • How to build a business case for this move
  • How to create a solid migration plan
  • How to identify low hanging fruit for refactoring

Table of Contents

  1. Preface
    1. Conventions Used in This Book
    2. Using Code Examples
    3. O’Reilly Online Learning
    4. How to Contact Us
    5. Acknowledgments
  2. I. Migration Foundation
  3. 1. Why should I migrate to Amazon Web Services?
    1. Cloud Technology Benefits
      1. Scalability and Dynamic Consumption
      2. Geographic Diversity
      3. Easy Access to Newer Technologies
      4. Availability
      5. Increased Security
    2. Cloud Business Benefits
      1. Reduced expenditures and support
      2. No Commitment
      3. Business Agility
      4. Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
      5. Decreased vendor lock-in
      6. Change to Operational Expenditures
      7. Increased Productivity
    3. Converting your “Why” into an FAQ
      1. How to Build the FAQ
      2. Wrapping it up
  4. 2. What are the risks and their mitigation?
    1. Technology Risks
      1. Security
      2. Application connectivity
      3. Technology diversity
      4. Perception of Increased Technical Complexity
    2. Business Risks
      1. Reputational risk
      2. Staffing and Expertise loss risk
      3. Contractual Obligations
      4. Cost regulation
    3. Building your Guiding Principles
      1. Wrapping it up
  5. II. Phases of Migration
    1. Discovery phase
    2. Building the Business Case
    3. Addressing Operational Readiness
    4. Defining your Landing Zone and Governance
    5. Planning the Migration
    6. Evaluating for Refactoring
    7. Application Deep Dive and Planning
  6. 3. Discover Your Workloads
    1. Discovery and Assessment Tooling
      1. Server Discovery
    2. Compute
      1. Latest Instances
      2. CPU Type
      3. Relational Database Service
      4. Partial Run Rate
      5. Auto Scaling
      6. License Model
    3. Storage
      1. EBS Volume Types
      2. Enhancements for Database Servers
      3. NFS Replacement
      4. Windows Server Replacement
      5. Instance Store Volumes
    4. Network
      1. Overall Outbound Bandwidth
      2. Elastic Load Balancers
      3. Classic Elastic Load Balancer
      4. Application Load Balancer
      5. Network Load Balancer
    5. Ancillary AWS Service Charges
    6. Assessing Connectivity Requirements
    7. Wrapping it up
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