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Costs Associated with On-Premises Environments Even if you are not working in the finance department of your organization, you might be curious about the costs that your company typically faces when operating its IT infrastructure in an on-premises environment. Here are some costs associated with on-premises environments that might not be found in a public…

Cloud Economics One of the biggest factors driving the move to public cloud technologies like AWS is economics. Organizations become aware of several major factors that make a cloud move almost inevitable. In this part of the chapter, we break them down to ensure that you fully understand them, even if finance is not your…

Database Migration Service One of the many areas where AWS shines is in managed database services. For example, with AWS Relational Database Services (RDS), customers can rely on AWS to do the hard work of managing underlying servers for the hosting of massive customer databases. Is it any surprise that AWS also offers a fully…

Cloud Transformation Journey Migrating to the cloud can be a very complex set of tasks for an organization, and so the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework provides us with another valuable tool. It suggests a cloud transformation journey that consists of four phases, as shown in Figure 4-2. Figure 4-2 The Cloud Transformation Journey These phases…

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework As AWS continues to grow in scale and scope, more and more organizations realize that they should make a move to cloud technologies to stay competitive and perhaps even to expand and improve their business offerings. To help these organizations make the move to the AWS Cloud successfully, AWS offers…

Cost Optimization The goal of the cost optimization pillar is quite simple: to save money and stop wasting investments in technology. The design goals are also straightforward: Implement Cloud Financial Management (CFM): CFM refers to the set of practices, tools, and strategies that organizations use to manage their finances and control costs in the context…

Performance Efficiency The performance efficiency pillar is concerned with the most efficient use of AWS resources possible. The efficiency should be maintained as demand changes and technology evolves. Here are the design goals around this pillar: Democratize advanced technologies (that is, make them available to the masses): Budgeting for massive amounts of storage and compute…

Reliability The reliability pillar consists of many important design principles that all focus on ensuring that your design can easily recover from service failures. It also ensures that your architecture can grow resources as needed on demand. Reliability in the cloud also means that disruptions can be mitigated with relative ease. Sound great? It is….

Security The job of the security pillar is to help protect your assets, your systems, and your information associated with AWS. This pillar should also assist you with risk assessments and your mitigation practices. This pillar consists of the following important design principles: Use strong identity practices in your architecture: Fortunately, AWS provides tools to…

Operational Excellence The overall objective of the operational excellence pillar is to make sure you run and monitor systems to ensure that they are providing value for the business goals of the organization. This pillar focuses on operational best practices for running and monitoring systems and continuously improving processes and procedures. Note While many of…