Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud

by Jonathan Allen, Thomas Blood, Werner Vogels (Foreword)

Netflix, Airbnb, Verizon, Experian, and Ancestry are just some of the millions of customers who now power their business with Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS has transformed the ability of businesses of every size and in every industry to reduce costs while being more secure, more resilient, and innovating much faster than ever before. Leaders looking to emulate this business impact with cloud will learn powerful lessons from those have gone before to accelerate their own journeys.Reaching Cloud Velocity provides leadership best practices covering the most requested customer topics, How enterprises are transforming with AWS- Aligning business and technology strategy to benefit from cloud- Reskilling and scaling your cloud fluency- Setting the right culture and organization model to attract and retain engineering talent- How to migrate data centres to AWS while holistically benefitting from the improved availability, security, and governance it can offer.The book also goes deeper into how leaders can leverage the inherent reliability and durability of the AWS Cloud, and how compute, containers, serverless, APIs, microservices, database, analytics, and machine learning have evolved into a set of highly resilient, secure, and scalable building blocks - allowing builders to innovate at a fraction of the costs they would have typically come to expect.Authors Jonathan Allen and Thomas Blood, AWS Enterprise Strategists, have previously led cloud transformations as AWS customers. They bring their own unique experience - combined with that of the 500+ customers that have worked with around the globe - to create a book chockfull of lessons, knowledge, and advice that leaders have been asking for.

Genres: Technology, Buisness

354 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 6, 2020

Reviews

[Ruben · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent overview of the different mechanisms that AWS provides to migrate enterprises to the cloud.

[Raeder Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

As IT sales rep and AWS enthusiast, I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of cloud computing. This book is a great soup-to-nuts read on migrating to the cloud as an Enterprise level company. This read like a school textbook which made the structure and organization simple to follow and effectively built a framework to understand the cloud. A few critiques: 1) dry at times but not sure how to make topics like "IT governance and compliance" more interesting, 2) very AWS-centric which might seem like that was obvious from the get-go. Would still be nice to see comparison to other cloud providers, hybrid/on-prem set-ups. 3) Enterprise focused view - that's where the big money is, but I would have liked to see more examples for SMBs and DNBs. Overall, I'm very glad to have read this book and feel more confident in my understanding of cloud migrations.

[Sergey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written by AWS Execs, the book is very prescriptive as to how enterprises should migrate to AWS cloud. However, that’s exactly what I found useful.

[Tristan Greaves · Rating 5 out of 5]

Covers a lot of cloud transformation ground, including CCoE creation, architecture and Operating Model. Perfect as a primer for leaders getting involved in this area and wanting to know what lies ahead.