Migrating to Aws: A Manager's Guide : How to Foster Agility, Reduce Costs, and Bring a Competitive Edge to Your Business

Jeff Armstrong

ISBN 10: 1492074241 / ISBN 13: 9781492074243

Published by O'reilly Media Aug 2020, 2020

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Neuware - 'Bring agility, cost savings, and a competitive edge to your business by migrating your IT infrastructure to AWS. With this practical book, executive and senior leadership and engineering and IT managers will examine the advantages, disadvantages, and common pitfalls when moving your company's operations to the cloud.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migrating to Aws: A Manager's Guide : How to Foster Agility, Reduce Costs, and Bring a Competitive Edge to Your Business
• Publisher: O'reilly Media Aug 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492074241
• ISBN 13: 9781492074243
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 181H x 20D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 181 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 488 grams

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Synopsis

Bring agility, cost savings, and a competitive edge to your business by migrating your IT infrastructure to AWS. Ideal for executive leadership, senior leadership, and engineering and IT managers, this practical book examines the advantages, disadvantages, and common pitfalls possible when moving your operations to the cloud.

Author Jeff Armstrong brings years of practical hands-on experience helping dozens of enterprises make this corporate change. You’ll explore real-world examples of how organizations have made—or attempted to make—this wide-ranging transition. With this guide, you’ll be better prepared to objectively evaluate your migration before, during, and after the process so you can ensure success.

By the end of this book, you’ll understand:

• Benefits and drawbacks of migrating to AWS
• Risks to your business and technology
• Methods for properly accessing workloads
• How to build a business case for this move
• How to create a solid migration plan
• How to identify low hanging fruit for refactoring

About the Author

Jeff Armstrong has 25 years of Information Technology experience working in several industry verticals for startups and fortune 100’s alike. For the past six years, Armstrong has been working as an architect in the mass migration space, four of which have been exclusive to cloud migrations to AWS. He has evaluated, designed, or migrated nearly 100,000 workloads in that timeframe. Armstrong is also an avid programmer, having worked in nine different languages throughout his career. He has obtained nine AWS certifications, is CISSP certified, and also holds the CEH and CHFI security certifications.

Jeff firmly believes in self-innovation and continued education. He has a bachelor’s in business administration, a master’s degree in information technology and assurance, and is pursuing his doctorate in business administration. Armstrong also holds a certificate in strategy and innovation from MIT Sloan and a certificate in executive leadership from Cornell.