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AMAZON WEB SERVICES | ACCELER ATING YOUR AWS JOURNEY: MIGR ATION & MODERNIZATION EBOOK
Re-platform: Re-platforming involves moving from services you manage
yourself to fully managed cloud services—but without changing the core
architecture of your applications. You'll typically choose this option for
applications you feel need to be reshaped to match your overall cloud strategy
or to better take advantage of the native capabilities of your cloud provider. Your
cloud provider should be able to provide assistance throughout this process.
Specifically, AWS offers managed services that enable you to reduce your
operational overhead without rewriting all your code. For example, if you're
managing a messaging broker today, you can easily replace it with the fully
managed Amazon MQ service without rewriting or paying for third-party
software licenses. Or, if you're migrating a Windows-based application that
requires file storage, you can use the fully managed Amazon FSx for Windows
File Server. To reduce the amount of time you spend managing Kubernetes
clusters, you can move to a managed Kubernetes service like Amazon EKS.
When you're ready to move existing applications straight to containers, you can
streamline the process through AWS App2Container (A2C). A2C is a command-
line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized
applications. It analyzes and builds an inventory of all applications running in
virtual machines, on-premises, or in the cloud and packages the application
artifact and identified dependencies into containers.
Babylon Health accelerated its mission to provide
affordable healthcare, using AWS services to:
Develop applications
using fast microservices
architecture
Create and deploy
300+ containerized
applications
Build machine learning
infrastructure on Amazon
EKS with Kubeflow
"We now have unprecedented high availability across the globe, while reducing the
average time to bring a change to the stack from four weeks to a matter of hours."
– Jean-Marie Ferdegue, Director, Platform Engineering, Babylon Health
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