Journey to cloud-ready environments
A cornerstone of a successful, cost-efficient, secure, and compliant cloud strategy is to emphasize proactive management and governance. Incorporating best practices from the M&G Guide helps you grow with AWS, whether you are in the setup, migrate, or operate phase of the cloud journey. The progression along that journey includes the adoption of management and governance capabilities as you mature. The three phases of a typical cloud journey are described in the following sections.
Customer use case examples for this guide include those that are just getting started with AWS, those that are considering an expansion into a multi-account experience, or those that are planning an expansion, such as the launch of new applications or a data center migration.
Setup
Getting started with AWS, you should configure identity management, logging, monitoring, observability, network connectivity to on-premises, and integrate security capabilities to their existing solutions. Gain a head-start on these capabilities by using AWS Control Tower to provision a landing zone embedded with controls. This is extended with basic network isolation, a base set of identities, and extending incident management and security capabilities to the new environments. In this phase, you begin building cloud-ready environments tuned to your enterprise needs. This lets you scale your management and governance functions alongside your workloads.
Build and migrate
In this phase, you want to extend and enhance your management and governance functions. This includes, extending network isolation boundaries, configuring further environment and workload-based controls, tuning change and incident management, and updating your observability to accommodate application-specific insights. Whether you are using a migration factory to quickly and efficiently migrate applications or workloads, or you are beginning to build out larger sets of applications or workloads, you should also add integration to your service management capabilities and enhance your security management tooling.
Operate
Evolving interoperability of the management and governance functions give you greater operational efficiency as you continue migrating, building, or modernizing your workloads. This phase typically includes the addition of full sourcing and distribution functions for your infrastructure templates or software solutions. Proactively using financial insights spanning across your workloads, accounts, and environments also position you for accelerating innovation activities.
Journey to AWS environments
