Quiz and Summary
Understand the complete process of enterprise migration to AWS, including portfolio assessment with the 7Rs framework, selecting migration strategies, execution tools, and hybrid coexistence architectures. Learn how to modernize applications and databases incrementally, manage migration waves, and apply AWS services for resilient, secure cloud adoption.
This chapter covered the end-to-end discipline of enterprise migration to AWS, from portfolio assessment and migration strategy selection to execution tooling, modernization, and hybrid coexistence architectures. Together, these patterns form a structured migration life cycle that balances speed, risk, operational continuity, and long-term modernization goals.
Migration strategy and the 7Rs framework
Enterprise migration begins with portfolio assessment, where applications are classified using the 7Rs framework based on business value, technical complexity, compliance constraints, and modernization goals. Rehost prioritizes speed, replatform introduces limited optimization, and refactor redesigns workloads into cloud-native architectures. Repurchase replaces legacy systems with SaaS, relocate moves VMware environments without redesign, retain keeps workloads ...