AWS Application Modernization, Cloud Application Modernization

Modern Applications on AWS Drive Agile, Digital Businesses

Organizations are under intense pressure today to modernize their business applications in the cloud to increase their agility, accelerate time to market, reduce costs and, in some cases, reinvent the way they do business. And it’s not just startups and market innovators. Nearly every business will need to embrace the cloud and modernize their applications to compete in the future.

AWS is at the forefront of this innovation, helping tens of thousands of businesses and millions of developers from all over the world to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS offers a wide variety of tools and services to help power these digital initiatives covering everything from compute, databases and infrastructure management to application development and security.

AWS provides the industry’s most reliable infrastructure with the deepest set of services to support your application modernization efforts.

Applications built or running on AWS are proven to be:

Users have access to a set of fully managed services for building and running applications and services without worrying about infrastructure management. With AWS on board, companies can now concentrate on providing the products that customers want.

more scalable

more efficient

higher performance

less costly

Cloud Native Requires the Right Application Modernization Approach

No company can become a truly digital business overnight. Taking advantage of cloud native workflow requires the proper modernization approach, one that can account for the challenges of integrating with legacy infrastructure, adopting modern development processes such as DevOps and allowing for continuous delivery. Additionally, you must be able to manage the cultural challenges that come with making these changes.

AWS provides the right technology foundation, but you need the right partner to put that foundation in place and make it work in your specific business and technical environment.

Modern Application Development Services with AWS

Apexon’s modern application development offerings enable enterprises to increase their business agility and resilience with scalable cloud-native applications.

We help development teams lay the foundation for cloud native architecture with a continuous delivery model that modernizes complex legacy systems.

Our all-in-one services include cloud enablement, industry-specific development solutions, ongoing application management, and continuous improvement to equip businesses to:

Drive shorter release cycles and faster time to market for new digital offerings
Overcome organizational cultural barriers to increase cloud-native adoption
Better position themselves to adjust to the continuously changing needs of the business

AWS Application Modernization

Service Offerings

Re-Architecting

Apexon enables development teams to leverage the full power of AWS with minimum changes to applications by adopting cloud-native services as replacements for data, streaming, API management, logging, monitoring and alerting. Apexon also helps with re-architecting; the migration from a monolithic architecture to a service-oriented (or serverless) architecture to boost agility and improve business continuity.

As a result, businesses get:

Reduced cost and increased scalability and reliability without refactoring or rewriting applications.
Improved elasticity and responsiveness of monolithic applications.
Continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and infrastructure automation for applications.

Re-Platforming

Apexon equips delivery teams to build responsive, self-healing, auto-scaling and serverless applications, without worrying about capacity planning and monitoring.

By leveraging the managed concurrency and routing provided by AWS, we enable applications to:

Scale seamlessly through unpredictable traffic and remain resilient in the face of unexpected failures.
Incur no additional costs during idle time.

Re-Hosting

Apexon can “lift and shift” a part of an application or the complete application — from on-premise or existing cloud environment to AWS — with no changes to the application.

This provides several advantages:

Reduced cost and faster go-to-market.
Increased elasticity and high availability.
Continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
Increased infrastructure automation.
Improved elasticity and responsiveness of monolithic applications.
Continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and infrastructure automation for applications.

Container Adoption

When serverless isn’t an option, Apexon leverages containers to deploy modern, complex, distributed applications. Containers typically require minimal changes to applications, making them an ideal next stage for applications not appropriate for major refactoring.

And they deliver multiple benefits, including:

Reduced complexity and scale by leveraging the advantages of the container ecosystem and orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes and ECS.
Increased application portability and improved developer workflows by creating isolated sandboxes for each component.

Customized Application Development Environments

Apexon can also customize your application development environment with advanced capabilities and specialty practices:

Automated governance and security.
Advanced app orchestration.
Blue/green deployments.
Self-healing patterns.
Advanced operation metrics.
App and infrastructure scaling patterns.

Our Approach

STEP 1

Discovery & Solution Ideation – 2 weeks

Technical discovery and future state planning technical discovery, business requirements, mind map the requirements with digitalization journey. Risk assessment, maturity assessment.

STEP 2

Iterative Delivery – 10-12 weeks

This step includes two-week sprints, demos, and checkpoints. It also includes future-state technical design documentation and checkpoints.

During this step, Apexon builds automation pipelines for deploying solutions; deploys pilot services via pipeline to lower environments; tests app functionality, performance, and security before promoting to production; and conducts knowledge transfer of the completed solution. During this phase, Apexon collects necessary data and quantifies the overall application charter. Apexon then employs the best DevOps practices and starts the redevelopment/refactoring/rehosting/rearchitecting. Finally, Apexon performs cost reduction analysis, efficiency analysis, and other industry-standard measurements.

AWS Application Modernization Done Right

Apexon offers several important advantages for application modernization efforts on AWS:

AWS Certified Architects

A large pool of AWS Certified Architects with hands-on experience designing, building, migrating, and optimizing architectures that follow the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Proven Automation Tools

Proven automation tools to speed development.

Modern Application Development

Modern application development using agile methodologies, well-architected framework practices and clean code practices are best suited for cloud technologies. This enables the full benefits of modern age computing power, high scalability, high reliability, security and cost effectiveness.

“Infrastructure as Code (IaC)” approach

An “Infrastructure as Code (IaC)” approach for making development environment management and maintenance easier and more cost effective.

Accelerators & Enablers

A set of Apexon Accelerators and Enablers designed specifically for AWS:

Auto-scaled compute platforms for microservice applications; one using AWS-ECS (with service discovery), and another using AWS-EKS.
A tool for overcoming max connection issues when using AWS-RDS with Lambda.
Auto scaled workers for AWS-SQS.
Cognito federated identity FB/Gmail/Custom/User Pool/SAML.

Apexon also has experience with a variety of AWS services and tools to further streamline and optimize your application development efforts.

AWS Lambda

AWS Fargate

AWS ECS

AWS EKS

AWS EventBridge

AWS SQS

AWS SNS

AWS API Gateway

AWS AppSync

AWS AppMesh

AWS DynamoDB

AWS RDS

AWS Aurora Serverless

AWS Document DB

AWS Elasticache

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodeDeploy

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Amplify

AWS Customer Success

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