Where Transformation Truly Conforms: Mastering the Application Wave on the Journey to the Cloud
The digital world is expanding faster than before. There are currently over 1.2 billion websites on the internet, and the number of apps available in major app stores has skyrocketed past 7 million. Because of this tremendous expansion, it is now more crucial than ever for companies to have cutting-edge, effective applications that can differentiate themselves from the competition.
Those are colossal numbers, vehemently highlighting our digital-first lifestyles and the exploding inclination of enterprises to adopt digitally augmented business models. The latter has been conventionally accomplished with enterprise operational platforms and applications such as ERP, SCM, HRMS, Billing, Accounting, CRM, and more. However, historically, such applications have been acquired on on-prem licenses and run from the acquirer firm’s private datacenters. In short, these businesses remain fully responsible for application operations, maintenance, security, and even upgrades to an extent. That’s a significantly lot of administrative overhead, de-focusing tech leaders from their core responsibilities and visions. The market, on the flip, demands agility. How can enterprises indulge in delivering frequent innovations enveloped within neat digital experiences for consumers if the core platforms and applications running their internal functions encounter frequent delays, downtimes, and are hugely expensive to maintain and upgrade?
Application modernization on the cloud solves that dilemma. And, that’s exactly how and why the above projected digital reality would truly conform.
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AWS delivers a rich, specialized ecosystem for enterprises to migrate and modernize their mission-critical applications from private datacenters to the cloud. Based on the application’s core architectures, firms can choose to simply lift and shift the stack to the cloud or customize the application codebase to best avail the cloud’s inherent platforms and features. However, the same is easier said than done and hence it’s suggestive to seek expert assistance for effective modernization outcomes.
With CloudEngin, the world’s largest end-to-end application-focused cloud managed service provider and an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, avail a transformative application modernization experience on AWS cloud. Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild adopted enterprise applications based on enterprise objectives and existing landscape assessment.
Integrate AWS-native tools and services to modernize application cores into microservice architectures for better agility, running applications on cost-effective serverless paradigms with auto load balancing, automate testing and deployment phases, streamline app delivery and functioning across multiple user ecosystems with containers, modernize app data infrastructure, and guarantee uncompromised security with continuous monitoring. Leverage CloudEngin proprietary solutions and frameworks along with resources for AWS and dedicated AWS offers to guarantee industry-best availability and application performance, 24/7/365. Accelerate your product updates, go-to-market timelines of your innovations at best ROI.
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Application modernization on the cloud is a dire necessity to revitalize IT operations and scale up delivery, service experiences. However, most enterprises only lift and shift applications and end up with massively limited, degraded performances due to the lack of sufficient app modernization on cloud experts. CloudEngin exhaustive cloud strategy, development, full-stack architecture, maintenance, and security engineers act as an extended team to modernize a client’s application environment end-to-end on the AWS Cloud.
With the advanced 6 R Methodology, rehash and reboot your applications to unlock extra agility, enhanced performance, and end-user excellence powered by an intelligent AWS cloud backend. You can start your AWS application modernization journey with a free discovery workshop.
Repurchase (Drop and Shop)
This phase involves minimalistic transformation to migrate to a cloud-based environment. The enterprise drops the existing on-prem license of the software being used and moves onto the cloud-based version of the same software, essentially repurchasing the license.
Rehost (Lift and Shift)
Identify the applications and existing workloads to be migrated and lift and shift them to the cloud ecosystem. The migration involves cutting-edge native tools and support services that help move the application stack from the existing on-prem to the cloud environment
Replatform (Lift, Change, Shift)
This process involves the same methodology as that of rehosting platforms and applications from the on-prem environment to the cloud ecosystem. However, here, some customizations are made to ensure that the platforms run best on the cloud.
Refactor/ Rearchitect
This phase or approach involves the most effort and expenses as the existing on-prem applications, databases, and workloads are significantly over-hauled, often at the codebase levels, to move them to the cloud. A common approach in this phase is to break up monolithic structures into microservice architectures for advanced performance on the cloud. Hence, such an approach ensures leveraging the best features of the cloud as the software is redesigned to match
Retire
This practice involves the recognition of applications or platforms that are redundant and would cause unnecessary load/overprovisioning on the cloud thereby shooting up operational costs. Under such circumstances, firms might opine to retire and replace the application altogether in favor of a cloud-friendlier version.
Retain
Businesses might opt to keep some legacy, on-prem applications running as they are delivering high performances and linked to critical projects. In such a case, the other core systems might run from the cloud and the retained on-prem applications might operate standalone or in sync with the cloud apps via APIs.
A Deep Dive into the CloudEngin Application Modernization Services for AWS Cloud
Avail CloudEngin industry-leading Migration Factory approach to streamline your enterprise and SaaS application workloads and resources, PaaS platforms migration on AWS. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, gain high ROI value, fast deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate seamlessly with existing ITSM processes. Leverage AWS-native solutions to migrate .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based applications, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to AWS cloud in just simple, automated steps. Exercise a lean application lifecycle environment across the entire organization including CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps augmentation, and SysOps processes. Gain breakthrough application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and always-on availability.
With the power of AWS cloud-native architecture, CloudEngin helps integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, information management, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, OpenText, industry applications on AWS Cloud Platform. Seamlessly build, deploy, test, run, and scale web applications, integrate with virtualized networks, embed containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance. Achieve high availability of 99.95% and seamlessly scale applications globally with zero disruption.
Host, manage, administer, and secure databases for mission-critical enterprise ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications including on-prem, Edge, and IoT environments with ease on the AWS Cloud. CloudEngin addresses SQL OpenSource Database applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, SAP HANA; NoSQL Open source database applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, etc. Fully managed cloud-based databases ensure high data availability, scalability, and easy access to cutting-edge analytical solutions. Embed top-notch security solutions and cloud-based firewalls for world-class data protection.
Integrity of old and new applications and their backend architectures, databases is an essential condition to achieve seamless frontend operations across diverse IT landscapes. With applications transited and modernized on the AWS cloud, bolster application integrity with multi-purpose APIs and event-driven architectures. The latter allows easy synchronization of divergent applications with other databases, apps, systems, platforms, and backend infra as and when required. Also, enhance remote workflow management with configurable, customizable, and fully administered remote development environments, remote workforce applications, and more.
A modernized DevOps environment is critical to accelerate your product delivery lifecycle integrating collaborative teams and technologies. Leverage the power of DevOps environments augmented by AWS Cloud tools and services with new features, embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the entire Software Development Lifecycle. Embed key technologies such as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for AWS Cloud (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), orchestration, Infrastructure as a Code to align your DevOps environment across multiple application landscapes. Leverage CloudEngin key toolkit expertise in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems building, automation, and testing to boost your DevOps and application practices on the cloud. With the AWS advantage, develop applications on the language of choice – .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice, enhance developer productivity, and streamline CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline. Accelerate go to market timelines and ensure an enterprise that’s agile by design.
The world is rapidly transcending from monolithic architectures that have powered legacy applications and software for decades to loosely coupled microservices. The major issue with such traditional structures is in their unparalleled rigidity, making life difficult for engineers to spot sneaky code errors or make major updates. With the cloud revolution powering modernized development environments to ensure consistent customer success, break up legacy applications and design new software in a powerful modularized fashion: abstracted components dedicated to running critical functions, weaved together into a central whole via advanced tools. Such modularized, self-functioning software segments makes it easy to pinpoint errors, push upgrades, and automate the delivery process for faster provisioning and running into live environments. This also assists in load balancing and traffic management. Individual server functions running each of the microservice segments can be independently scaled up or down based on traffic requirements without affecting the entire software’s performance, thereby reducing unnecessary server overprovisioning and reducing costs.
If microservices is considered to transform the way applications and software are developed or designed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service ensures the same are run on the cloud in an equally agile and transformative manner. Under this process, once the developed code is pushed to the cloud, the microservice modules or functions are assigned independent servers/fire only when the particular function is called, thereby reducing idle running or overprovisioning. Hence, under this architecture, the enterprise simply needs to push the modules to the cloud environment and the latter takes care of the rest, even to the point of assigning servers to run the same. Embrace the Functions-as-a-Service approach for the app modernization process including frontend apps, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, virtual machines, and more. Integrate microservices architecture with containerization to leverage FaaS on AWS to the fullest. With serverless event processing, design and develop the architecture of an event-driven application that ingests data streams, processes the same on the cloud, and synchronizes the results back to back-end databases at zero disruption, null data loss, and ultra-low latency. Leverage AWS native tools to enable serverless operations: AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify, AWS CDK, AWS App Runner.
With numerous cloud-native tools, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity experts, gain end-to-end protection of all your application assets. Leverage the advanced Managed Detection and Response platform for automated threat, malware management. Lower Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, avail complete end-point security and utilize advanced data analytics to gain unique security management insights. Avail 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management, Firewalls management, API security, app database threat management, network monitoring with dedicated cloud-native tools.
With CloudEngin application managed services for AWS Cloud, avail a globally compliant-ready application architecture that includes stringent adherence to local-national-global regulations such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2. Adhere to data residency and locality laws easily with secure, in-country hosting. Embrace stringent compliance checks over your application assets. Let compliance issues never deter your application functionalities and organization’s progress again.
Streamlined integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to help businesses achieve near-zero operational outage. Avail advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management solutions for your applications and related assets with stringent, custom RPO/RTO standards. Build your custom DR strategy on the AWS cloud leveraging DRaaS architecture, adopt tailored solutions for business processes, streamline-protect data storage platforms, and opt for periodic DR drills for maximum impact. Avail geo-native AWS hosting for maximum application availability, scalability, performance agility, and uncompromised continuity.
With CloudEngin turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can discover the right business processes for automation, extract data from even unstructured sources, automate complex tasks, strategically scale automation across your enterprise and do much more. With our proven process analytics and automation expertise, our certified automation experts have helped many organizations automate some of their core tasks, and transform their businesses.Leverage proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation tools and solutions to modernize application processes, workflows, data and embrace intelligent, informed decision-making capabilities. With applications powered on the AWS cloud backend, choose from hundreds of advanced cloud-native tools and business applications to streamline asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with cloud Machine learning tools: Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Augmented AI, Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon Elastic Inference. AWS’ fully modernized development platform provides automated logging, scaling and high availability, rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive workflows to maximize enterprise applications’ ROI and resilience.
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Fail-proof, Zero Loss Implementation: Into the CloudEngin Application Migration and Modernization Factory Approach
PHASE 1: ASSESSMENT
- Discovery Workshops
- Industry and geo-specific frameworks
- Assessing at-risk applications and loopholes
- Risk and security assessment with priority points
- Cost-Benefit Analysis with Risk Mitigation Costs
- CloudEngin Endorsement Priorities
- Recommendation priorities for application modernization
- Stakeholder buy-in and funds
PHASE 2: PLAN
- Laying out the modernization blueprint
- App migration and transformation approaches
- Migration strategy and target landscapes for deployment
- Development and Testing Plans
- Document Impact Plan and Document Project Milestones
- Budgeting
- Stakeholder buy-ins and funds release
PHASE 3: EXECUTION
- Project Kick-off
- Configure Cloud Platforms
- Quality Checks
- Security Checks and Authorization
- App Health and Functionality Check
- Report Status to Migration Teams
- ROI Validation
- De-commission Technologies
- Project Sign-Off
Why CloudEngin while you embrace AWS Outposts?
In-depth discovery workshops and end-to-end consultations across the entire application migration project lifecycle
Fail-proof, secure, and risk-averse application migration framework tailored to organizational needs and objectives
Robust industry, geography, and compliance-specific CloudEngin Application Migration factory approach for faster migration at zero disruption
Comprehensive transition strategy involving the entire applications partner ecosystem to seamlessly achieve organization’s transformation objectives
Leveraging cloud-native & underlying certified migration tools powered by automation and intelligence to enable quicker transition, faster Go-to-Market (GTM), and enhanced ROI
Leveraging AWS modernized app development environments to develop highly available, custom applications for any ecosystem
Leveraging built-in application monitoring tools to monitor application health and performance, availability and usage of all enterprise web applications
Embrace the built-in security control for application networks, monitoring & logging, identity management, data protection, and configuration management. Secure advanced protection for web apps via cybersecurity best practices
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AWS Application Modernization - FAQs
What is meant by App modernization on the Cloud?
Application modernization on cloud entitles customizing, rearchitecting, or fine-tuning applications to seamlessly integrate and run with the adopted cloud platform.
Legacy applications are often hardwired to specific systems, kernels, or backends and hence perform poorly on cloud if simply lifted and shifted.
To leverage the best of the advanced cloud architecture and ensure high workload performance, modernizing applications should be on the top of the bucket list for enterprise owners.
How do you achieve application modernization?
Application modernization could be done in six fundamental approaches or the 6 Rs: Repurchase, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Retain.
The first approach involves simple transition of the usage of an on-prem software to its cloud version, essentially changing licenses.
Rehost involves lifting and shifting applications as is to the cloud environment while Replatform includes the same methodology but with a few customizations for better performance on the cloud.
Refactor or Rearchitect involves a complete overhaul of the applications, including breaking down monolithic structures into simpler modules or microservices and redesigning codebases to not only migrate them to cloud but making them cloud-ready end-to-end.
Retire and Retain involves practices to replace worn-out, redundant software or retaining existing, highly critical on-prem applications as-is, respectively.
What are the main components of application modernization?
Application modernization impacts the entire app’s lifecycle, inputs, and outputs.
Hence, to fully modernize applications, enterprises must also refactor app databases, fine tune database management platforms, modify application networks-protocols-libraries, customize servers, integrate with DevOps, and streamline app security.
Firms can leverage services of application modernization partners like CloudEngin or native cloud-tools to achieve the above without disruption.
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