AWS Application Modernization with A2C

Modernization Goals

• Accelerate business transformation
• Agility
• Costs
• Cloud performance

Strategies

• 7 Rs:
  • Refactor
  • Replatform
  • Rehost
  • Repurpose
  • Relocate

Refactor

• Often default, but not always best approach
  • Expensive—cost and time

Replatform

• More cost-effective and faster
• Gain cloud experience in the process
• Refactor later
• Utilize containers

Challenges of Containerization

• Technology
  • Existing build processes—manual
  • Lack of documentation
• Staff
  • Lack of knowledge
  • Low priority
• Operations
  • Lack of expertise in containers/cloud

Migration Steps

Discover	Prepare	Build	Launch
Libraries	Source code	Dockerfile	Infrastructure
Dependencies	e.g. Remove passwords, DB connection strings etc.	Build	VPC etc.
Networking		CI/CD	CloudFormation/Terraform

References

• App2Container (A2C)