Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization I
Explore various AWS workload migration approaches and portfolio rationalization techniques. Understand how to assess application dependencies, group migration waves, model total cost of ownership, and handle complex legacy systems. Learn strategies that balance risk, compliance, and operational continuity while enabling effective cloud modernization.
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Question 61
A regional healthcare network is consolidating 14 clinics ahead of a data center lease expiration. AWS Application Discovery Service and AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations show abandoned departmental applications, a vendor payroll package with a mature SaaS option, a laboratory system awaiting HIPAA recertification, and several low-complexity IIS applications. Which portfolio rationalization approach best minimizes migration scope and risk while correctly applying the seven Rs?
A. Refactor every application into containers and managed databases before migration so that no technical debt is moved to AWS.
B. Rehost all 350 applications to Amazon EC2 with AWS Application Migration Service first, then decide which applications to retire or modernize after the lease exit is complete.
C. Validate discovery findings with application owners, retire unused departmental applications, repurchase the payroll system as SaaS, retain the laboratory system until compliance recertification is complete, and rehost or replatform low-risk IIS applications in early waves.
D. Retire the most complex systems, including the laboratory and ...