A successful application modernization strategy starts with the business need in mind, and then focuses on technologies. As the journey to the cloud gathers pace, organizations have been looking for ways to accelerate cloud adoption and for a prescriptive approach to application modernization. Amazon Web Services (AWS) approaches application modernization by dividing the modernization roadmap into discrete increments that focus on three phases: assess, modernize, and manage. This article discusses the strategy for assessing and modernizing applications, and is based on the AWS Professional Services team's years of experience helping enterprise AWS customers in their cloud adoption and application modernization projects.
This strategy is for IT and business executives, program and project managers, product owners, and operations and infrastructure managers who are planning to modernize their applications in the AWS Cloud. It explains how to identify mission-critical applications, how to evaluate different modernization approaches (such as refactor, rearchitect, or rewrite), and how applications would benefit from improved scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
