Context & challenge
A hypothetical business wants to take an existing web workload into a cloud environment while keeping access, resilience and spending understandable.
Give the application a clear operating foundation without losing sight of account ownership, data requirements or the migration path.
Proposed approach
Separate access and account governance from the application workload. Design the networking and data path around the application, with monitoring and cost ownership present from the beginning.
Project scope
A project would define the implementation scope, responsibilities and acceptance criteria around the customer’s applications, data and operating requirements.
Example AWS architecture
Conceptual flow. Network boundaries, access, regions, scaling and recovery would be designed for the specific workload.
AWS Organizations, AWS IAM Identity Center, Amazon VPC, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EC2 or Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch.
What a project would measure.
The measures below would establish whether the proposed design meets its objectives. Customer results would be published only with an agreed baseline, measured evidence and permission to share.
| Area | Evidence to capture |
|---|---|
| Resilience | Agreed availability objectives, failover test records and recovery evidence. |
| Operations | Documented ownership, alerts, runbooks and handover. |
| Cost visibility | A dated, reconciled billing baseline and workload allocation. |