Application Modernization
Streamline your business Application Modernization
AWS Application Modernization offers a flexible path to upgrade your existing software. Choose from various migration options, like a swift "lift and shift" or a complete rebuild. Unlike other solutions, AWS prioritizes your business goals, freeing you from restrictive licensing agreements.
The benefits are clear.
AWS can significantly reduce your costs, with potential payback periods within 6 months and a substantial decrease in total ownership expenses (TCO). These savings empower you to invest further in growth initiatives.
Modernization with AWS goes beyond cost reduction. It unlocks:
Effortless scalability
AWS infrastructure adapts automatically to fluctuating demands, ensuring smooth operation during peak usage periods.
Enhanced security
Robust security features safeguard your applications and data, giving you peace of mind.
Expert guidance
AWS Professional Services provides valuable support throughout your modernization journey.
Ready to leave outdated applications behind and propel your business forward?
AWS Application Modernization can be the key to unlocking innovation and efficiency.
Benefits of AWS Application Modernization
With AWS, offloading the infrastructure management and maintenance costs can not only reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 64%, but it can also help you realize the following
Faster Time to Market
Docker containers make apps easier to scale and develop, accelerating the speed of build-and-release cycles.
Increased Agility
Modular microservices architecture increases team agility by allowing changes to individual components.
Improved Reliability
Deploy reliable modern apps by automating development processes and gain enhanced lifecycle development monitoring.
Reduced Disruption
Modular microservices architecture allows for component experimentation and changes to occur with minimal risk to the SDLC.
Enhanced Security
Using RBAC, single sign on & multi-account environment, AWS enables teams to provision and operate without sacrificing business agility and governance.
Unlimited Scalability
Enable teams to support a single instance or scale to thousands of instances for continuous delivery, integration, and improvement.
Phase 1: Assess
Evaluate your applications
This stage involves a thorough examination of your existing applications. You'll analyze their current state, dependencies on other systems, and identify potential roadblocks that might arise during modernization. Tools like AWS Migration Hub can be used to assess application characteristics and dependencies.
Understand your goals :
Here, you define what you want to achieve with modernization. Are you aiming for faster development cycles, improved scalability, or cost reduction? Knowing your goals helps determine the most suitable modernization approach for each application.
Phase 2: Modernize
Choose your path
Based on the assessment and your goals, you'll select the most appropriate modernization strategy for each application. Here are the common approaches:
Lift and shift (rehosting)
This is the simplest option, where you move your applications "as-is" to the AWS cloud environment with minimal changes. It's suitable for applications that are already stable but could benefit from cloud scalability and elasticity.
Refactoring
This approach involves optimizing your existing application code to make it better suited for the cloud. You might break down monolithic applications into smaller, more manageable microservices or modernize coding practices for improved performance and maintainability.
Re-platforming
This is a complete rebuild of your application using modern cloud-native technologies like containers and serverless functions. This approach offers the most benefits in terms of agility and scalability but requires significant development effort.
Modernization tools and services
AWS offers a variety of tools and services to support your chosen modernization strategy. Here are a few examples:
AWS Migration Hub
This service helps you plan, migrate, and manage the modernization process across all your applications.
AWS CodeCommit and CodePipeline
These services facilitate secure code storage and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, which automate the building, testing, and deployment of your modernized applications.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS):
These services provide container orchestration platforms for managing containerized applications.
AWS Lambda
This serverless compute service allows you to run code without managing servers, ideal for building highly scalable microservices.
Phase 3: Manage
Monitor and optimize
Once your applications are modernized, it's crucial to monitor their performance, security, and cost. AWS offers various tools like CloudWatch for monitoring and Amazon Cost Explorer for cost optimization.
Continuous improvement
Modernization is an ongoing process. As your business needs evolve, you can revisit your applications and implement further optimizations or adopt new features offered by AWS.
By following this phased approach and leveraging the extensive toolkit provided by AWS, you can effectively modernize your applications and unlock the benefits of the cloud.