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Refactoring scenario, part 1

Refactoring scenario, part 1

- Out of the six R's of cloud migration, there are three of them that actually involve moving infrastructure: rehost, replatform, and refactor. And we're going to take a look at a scenario that involves refactoring or re-architecting an application from on-prem into AWS. An on-premises application has been selected for migration into AWS. The application consists of a Layer 7 load balancer, an application runtime on virtual machines, an NFS filesystem, and a Postgres database server. The solutions architect will recommend containers for the runtime and use AWS-managed services to replace the existing infrastructure. What services should the architect recommend to refactor the application with a goal for least ongoing infrastructure overhead? So let's take a look at the questions we should be asking ourselves before we dig in any further. How does AWS support container applications? Do container services support integration with an application load balancer? That's where we get our…

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