Transforming Your Business with AWS

Expert guidance on how to use Amazon Web Services to supercharge your digital services business

In Transforming Your Business with AWS: Getting the Most Out of Using AWS to Modernize and Innovate Your Digital Services, renowned international consultant and sought-after speaker Philippe Abdoulaye delivers a practical and accessible guide to using Amazon Web Services to modernize your business and the digital services you offer. This book provides you with a concrete action plan to build a team capable of creating world-class digital services and long-term competitive advantages.

You'll discover what separates merely average digital service organizations from the truly outstanding, as well as how moving to the cloud will enable your business to deliver your services faster, better, and more efficiently.

This book also includes:

• A comprehensive overview of building industry-leading digital service delivery capabilities, including discussions of the development lifecycle, best practices, and AWS-based development infrastructure

• Explanations of how to implement a digital business transformation strategy

• An exploration of key roles like DevOps Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, Automation, and DevSecOps

• Hands-on treatments of AWS application management tools, including Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline

Perfect for executives, managers, and other business leaders attempting to clarify and implement their organization's digital vision and strategy, Transforming Your Business with AWS is a must-read reference that answers the "why" and, most importantly, the "how," of digital transformation with Amazon Web Services.

Auteur

PHILIPPE ABDOULAYE is an international digital business transformation consultant. He advises business and IT leaders on how to take advantage of digital technologies to grow and prosper. He is a sought-after speaker for technology conferences around the world and has authored seven books on digital transformation and digital technologies.

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SUPERCHARGE YOUR DIGITAL SERVICES BUSINESS WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES

In Transforming Your Business with AWS: Getting the Most Out of Using AWS to Modernize and Innovate Your Digital Services, celebrated digital transformation expert Philippe Abdoulaye demonstrates how to use Amazon Web Services to modernize and fine-tune your digital services business. The author provides you with your own personal roadmap to building a team able to create world-class digital services. Find out how moving to the cloud will empower your company to deliver services faster, better, and more efficiently and what concrete actions you can take to transform your digital services operation into a powerhouse. Learn revolutionary new strategies and hands-on techniques involving AWS application management tools, like Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, and how they affect crucial team members. Explore critical roles in your digital transformation, like DevOps Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, Automation, and DevSecOps. Finally, find out what sets merely average digital adopters apart from companies that embrace the groundbreaking new capabilities of digital cloud services. Perfect for IT business leaders, including CIOs, CTOs, CMOs, and DevOps administrators and engineers, Transforming Your Business with AWS is also ideal for solution architects seeking strategies for digital transformation. This book offers:

• A comprehensive overview of implementing a digital business transformation strategy
• A review of the digital service development lifecycle
• Critical roles that need to be filled in your digital transformation
• Practical discussions of AWS application management tools
• Action plans and best practices for executives leading their companies through a digital transformation

Contenu
Introduction xxvii

Part I Understanding the Digital Transformation Challenges 1

Chapter 1 The Digital Economy's Challenges, Opportunities, and Relevance of AWS 3

Understanding the Digital Economy's Impacts 4

Surviving Disruptions Are Your Business's Primary Challenge 4

Understanding the Digital Economy's Opportunities 4

Surviving the Disruptions: The AWS Solutions 5

The AWS Universal Architecture: Simplifying AWS Understanding 5

Navigating AWS IaaS Building Block 6

AWS Compute Resources 7

AWS Network Resources 8

AWS Storage Resources 9

Understanding Essential AWS PaaS Tools 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk 10

AWS CodeDeploy 10

AWS CodePipeline 11

Understanding Innovation with AWS: Machine Learning, Internet of Things, and Elastic MapReduce 11

AWS Machine Learning 11

AWS Internet of Things 12

Amazon Elastic MapReduce 12

Understanding the AWS Integration Building Block 13

Site-to-Site VPN 13

Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS 13

Changes in the AWS Implementation Paradigm 14

Lift-and-Shift Migration is a Problem 14

Failure Factors Making Lift-and-Shift Irrelevant 14

Understanding the Benefits of Enterprise Architecture for AWS 15

Key Takeaways 16

References 16

Chapter 2 What is a Digital Product? 17

Differences Between Digital Products and Digital Services 17

Digital Service Delivers Information 18

Digital Product Exists in Intangible Formats 18

Anatomy of the Digital Product 18

The Digital Product's Technology Stack 18

The 4G/5G Services 19

Cloud Computing Services: Innovation as a Service 20

Smart Mobile Devices 24

Impacts on Digital Product and Service Development 24

The Growing Complexity of the Technological Stack 24

Technology Innovation Alone Isn't Enough Anymore 25

Key Takeaways 25

References 26

Chapter 3 Digital Product and Service Development Challenges 27

What is Digital Product and Service Development? 28

Digital Product and Service Development Defined 28

How is Digital Product and Service Development Performed? 28

Ideation 29

Concept 30

Business Case 30

Development 30

Testing 31

Launch 31

Digital Product and Service Development Approach Evaluation 31

Understanding the Digital Product and Service Development Assessment Framework 32

Assessment Framework Overview 32

The Context Elements 33

The Performance Enablers 33

The Digital Transformation Solutions 34

Assessing Current Digital Product and Service Development 35

What is a Digital Product and Service Development Platform? 35

Capturing Business Context 37

Evaluating Your Digital Operating Model 37

Evaluating Your Technical Platform 38

Evaluating Your Organizational Model 40

Assessing Your Human Capital 41

Challenges of Current Digital Product Development 42

Focus on Digital Product and Service Development 42

Accurate Customer Insights 43

Competitive Pricing 43

Premium Customer Experience 43

Rapid Go-to-Market 44

Key Takeaways 44

References 44

Chapter 4 Industrializing Digital Product and Service Development 47

The Total Quality Management and Mass Production Heritage 48

Total Quality Management Principles Defined 48

Customer Focus 48

Workforce Commitment 49

Process Approach 49

Integrated System 49

Continual Improvement 49

Transversal Communication 49

Mass Production Principles Defined 49

Assembly Line 50

Work Specialization 50 Automation 50</...