Development
It helps in building applications using cloud-native principles and architectures that leverage the scalability, resilience, and agility of cloud platforms, Involves designing loosely coupled, distributed architectures that can take advantage of cloud services such as serverless computing, containers and microservices.
- Develop applications using serverless computing platforms such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
- Serverless architectures allow developers to focus on writing code without managing underlying infrastructure, enabling auto-scaling and cost optimization.
- Containerize applications using container orchestration platforms like kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or Amazon ECS.
- Containers provide lightweight, portable environments for deploying and scaling applications consistently across different cloud environments, on-premises, or hybrid deployments.
Microservices Architecture
- Decompose monolithic applications into smaller, independent microservices that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently.
- Microservices enable agility, scalability and resilience by breaking down complex applications into smaller, manageable components.
Application Migration
It can help determine and implement the most appropriate migration strategy after through assessment of the application portfolio and careful consideration of factors such as application complexity, business requirements, time constraints, budget, and long-term strategic goals, Common approaches to migrating applications to the cloud.
Rehosting (Lift and Shift)
- Migrating applications with minimal changes to their architecture or code.
- Move the application to the cloud without making significant modifications.
- Typical approach for legacy applications or monolithic systems where rapid migration is required, and there's limited time or resources for redevelopement.
- Faster migration timelines, reduced risk, and minimal disruption to business.
- Rehosted application may not fully leverage cloud-native features.
Replatforming (Lift, Tinker and Shift)
- Involves making some modifications to the application architecture or components to better align with cloud-native capabilities.
- The approach aims to improve performances, scalability and cost efficiency by leveraging cloud-native services auto-scaling or serverless computing.
- Balance between rapid migration and optimizing for cloud benefits. Benefits such as improved performance, and better alignment with cloud best practices.
Refactoring (Rearchitecting)
- Refactoring involves significant modifications to the application architecture, design, or code to fully leverage cloud-native capabilities and architectures.
- The goal is to redesign the application to take advantage of cloud services, microservices architecture, serverless computing, and other modern approaches.
- Offers the highest level of optimization, Scalability, and agility but required more time resources and expertise compared to rehosting or replatforming.