Stratus10 and AWS understand that every migration is different; however, based on our experience helping organizations of all maturity levels, industries, and geographies migrate to the cloud, we have seen a standardized migration process take shape. This eBook is designed to teach you proven strategies specific to a range of environments  you can employ to accelerate your migration, immediately.

Introduction

Modernizing applications yields a range of benefits for organizations looking for infrastructure that is built to last. Containerization allows you to be more flexible in the delivery and deployment of applications and optimizes costs. Adding a proper Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline into the mix allows for better management and automated workflows for a containerized application. 
 

The biggest cloud computing event of the year, AWS re:Invent 2020 is this year’s three-week virtual conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from November 30 – December 18, 2020. The event kicked off this week with the announcement of new releases and features available to AWS customers.

Stratus10 Achieves AWS DevOps Competency status

Achievement demonstrates the San Diego-based company’s commitment to DevOps

SAN DIEGO, Calif., November 13, 2020 – Stratus10, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting Partner, announced today that it has achieved the AWS DevOps Competency status.

Overview

One of the foundations of a good Devops organization is stable, repeatable environments that can be managed through code. When a DevOps team is developing an Infrastructure as Code management process, they often lean heavily on CloudFormation, as they should. But what should that team do if they need to support a hybrid cloud environment where servers and services are deployed both on premise and in the cloud? Queue AWS OpsWorks.

Overview

It’s no secret that DevOps teams must be able to quickly and efficiently debug issues in their operational environments, and a key metric in the maturity and quality of the DevOps team is the time it takes them to identify and resolve production issues. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a key component to this capability, and AWS X-Ray gives DevOps teams all of the features of a leading APM solution in an easy to implement managed service. 

DevOps teams share one common goal: to increase the frequency and quality of application deployments. AWS CodeStar is described as the AWS service to "Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS”.  DevOps teams can use AWS CodeStar to quickly set up their entire continuous delivery toolchain in minutes for more reliable deployments in consistent environments, as well as less risk of error.  

 An AWS CodeStar project creates and integrates AWS services for the project development toolchain, lending DevOps teams advantages such as:

2019 witnessed the release of several state of IT security case studies for 2018 and in terms of IT security and downtime, these reports weren’t flattering. According to a CTI report, 94% of small businesses do not recover from major data losses. Also, IT-related downtime has been responsible for $50,000 to $5 million loses to affected businesses. 

As recently as just a few years ago, business leaders worried about the unknown factors of moving their core applications to the cloud. Factors like not knowing how a particular application might work in the cloud were deterrents to what would have been optimal cloud migration, according to Tech Target.

By now everyone has heard of the cloud and how it is revolutionizing the computer industry. Most companies are either in the process of migrating to the cloud or planning a cloud migration. The public cloud allows companies, big and small, to host their applications in virtual servers at a lower cost than a traditional data center. According to the 2017 RightScale State of the Cloud Report the top reason companies are interested in the cloud is cost savings.