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Why Modernization is Important
- Majority of workloads are still on-premises, but customer expectations are evolving.
- Modernization is critical for unlocking the full benefits of cloud migration, enabling faster delivery of features, improved performance and resilience, and increased efficiency.
- Modernization can involve moving to managed services, SaaS solutions, or other cloud-native services.
Defining Modernization
- Modernization is the process of transforming existing applications and infrastructure into higher-value cloud-native services, enabling faster, more frequent, intelligent, and reliable delivery of value to customers.
- Key elements are transforming workloads into higher-value services and delivering business benefits quickly.
Business Benefits of Modernization
- Agility: Faster delivery of features, enabling innovation.
- Performance and Resilience: Improved responsiveness and reliability, with reduced incidents and faster time to resolve.
- Efficiency: Improved infrastructure and user/IT team productivity.
AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
- MAP consists of five key elements:
- Proven migration methodology
- Tools
- Training and certification
- Funding
- Sustainability
MAP Methodology
- Three phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize.
- Assess phase: Build a fact-based business case for cloud migration and modernization.
- Mobilize phase: Transform the customer's environment, including building a Cloud Center of Excellence and running pilot migrations.
- Migrate & Modernize phase: Deliver migration and modernization at scale.
MAP Funding
- MAP program funding evolved in 2024, including strategic partner incentives (SPIs) for Greenfield VMware customers and modernization.
- Modernization SPI provides additional partner cash funding to address potential modernization needs.
Modernization Paths and Challenges
- Common modernization paths:
- Migration to AWS native services (EC2, ECS, EKS)
- Migration and modernization to VMware on AWS
- Migration to Red Hat OpenShift on AWS
- Challenges:
- People and skills
- Analysis paralysis
- Decision fatigue
Modernization Success Stories
- Slum helped three customers across different regions (ANZ, EMEA, and North America) modernize their workloads on AWS.
- Key benefits included improved scalability, performance, resilience, and cost savings.
- Strategies included database modernization, containerization, and leveraging AWS services for data, security, and AI/ML.
AWS Migration Hub Journeys
- Helps address challenges in migration and modernization projects:
- Lack of awareness about AWS capabilities and partner ecosystem tools
- Collaboration challenges between internal and external teams
- Lack of clear guidance and predefined tasks/templates
- Provides pre-built templates, task management, and collaboration features to accelerate migration and modernization.
Key Takeaways
- Modernization is critical for unlocking the full benefits of cloud migration.
- Use MAP benefits, including funding and tools, to accelerate modernization projects.
- Leverage available trainings and resources, and reach out to the presenters for further assistance.