Implementing a digital transformation program
In the previous section, you spent some time understanding AWS cloud migration strategy. In this section, you will learn how to perform the transformation from legacy on-premises technologies into the cloud.
As you can imagine, this can be a difficult exercise, especially for large enterprises that have a long history of using old technologies and have made significant investments in them. Deciding to start migrating applications and on-premises services to the cloud is not a decision that can be made lightly. A complete migration will likely take years and potentially can cost millions of dollars just on migration, transformation, and testing costs.
For this reason, important decisions need to be made along the way. Some of the most critical decisions that need to be made are as follows:
Should you perform the bare minimum amount of tasks to achieve the migration, or do you want to use this change as an opportunity to refactor, enhance, and...