Where Transformation Truly Conforms: Mastering the Application Wave on the Journey to the Cloud

There would be over 500 million apps in the next few years, up from 3 million today. The internet would constitute 5 billion websites by 2023, up from 1.7 billion currently.

Those are colossal numbers, vehemently highlighting our digital-first lifestyles and the exploding inclination of enterprises to adopt digitally augmented business models. The latter has been conventionally accomplished with enterprise operational platforms and applications such as ERP, SCM, HRMS, Billing, Accounting, CRM, and more. However, historically, such applications have been acquired on on-prem licenses and run from the acquirer firm’s private datacenters. In short, these businesses remain fully responsible for application operations, maintenance, security, and even upgrades to an extent. That’s a significantly lot of administrative overhead, de-focusing tech leaders from their core responsibilities and visions. The market, on the flip, demands agility. How can enterprises indulge in delivering frequent innovations enveloped within neat digital experiences for consumers if the core platforms and applications running their internal functions encounter frequent delays, downtimes, and are hugely expensive to maintain and upgrade?

Application modernization on the cloud solves that dilemma. And, that's exactly how and why the above projected digital reality would truly conform.

A transformation is imminent.

65% organizations would aim to aggressively modernize applications by 2023 around the world

Application Modernization saves 15-35% annual infra savings including upto 70% costs on hardware, software, and resources

Automation is the Top priority for enterprises adopting application modernization

Cloud4C Named a Visionary in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services 2021

Enterprise Applications: Built, Modernized, and Run with AWS Services. Managed end-to-end by Cloud4C

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AWS delivers a rich, specialized ecosystem for enterprises to migrate and modernize their mission-critical applications from private datacenters to the cloud. Based on the application’s core architectures, firms can choose to simply lift and shift the stack to the cloud or customize the application codebase to best avail the cloud’s inherent platforms and features. However, the same is easier said than done and hence it’s suggestive to seek expert assistance for effective modernization outcomes.

With Cloud4C, the world’s largest end-to-end application-focused cloud managed service provider and an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, avail a transformative application modernization experience on AWS cloud. Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild adopted enterprise applications based on enterprise objectives and existing landscape assessment.

Integrate AWS-native tools and services to modernize application cores into microservice architectures for better agility, running applications on cost-effective serverless paradigms with auto load balancing, automate testing and deployment phases, streamline app delivery and functioning across multiple user ecosystems with containers, modernize app data infrastructure, and guarantee uncompromised security with continuous monitoring. Leverage Cloud4C proprietary solutions and frameworks along with resources for AWS and dedicated AWS offers to guarantee industry-best availability and application performance, 24/7/365. Accelerate your product updates, go-to-market timelines of your innovations at best ROI.

Build the foundations to a truly agile enterprise. Start your AWS application modernization journey with a  free discovery workshop with Cloud4C.

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Why Modernize Applications on the AWS Cloud: Intelligent Technology with Automation, Efficiency, and Innovation

Common Challenges

Managed Application Benefits

Rising costs for application upgrades
Lack of Universality
Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility
Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual
Delays in Application Issue Management
Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise
Pertaining application risks at multiple levels
Regulatory and compliance hassles
Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure
Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities
illustration of upgrade benefit of application modernization with aws

Rising costs for application upgrades

  • With applications modernized on the AWS cloud, achieve excellent, near real-time application upgrade capabilities at a flexible, pay-as-you-use model.
  • Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild enterprise applications with ease to leverage the advanced benefits of AWS.
  • With AWS-powered modern application development environments, embrace cloud-native architectures for management agility, automate processes to truncate costs at every stage of the application management journey
illustration of universality benefit of application modernization with aws

Lack of Universality

  • Gain a universal dashboard overview and control for all applications modernized on the AWS Cloud including private IT environments, private clouds, multiple adopted clouds, third party enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Infosys, Databases)
  • Achieve seamless integration between heterogeneous, complex environments (applications, backend systems, and data) via AWS native connectors and APIs such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync. Integrate no-code API integration with Amazon AppFlow.
illustration of application performance benefit of application modernization with aws

Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

  • Quickly deploy web apps and APIs on the AWS Cloud. Seamlessly develop with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers using native containerization solutions such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, ROSA, etc
  • Scale application performance basis requirements, gain high availability of 99.95%, and hyper agility. Leverage AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify for effective traffic routing, load balancing with serverless operations structures.
illustration of business contintuity benefit of application modernization with aws

Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

  • Zero disruptions to backend application infra including servers, networks, storage, compute on the cloud. Enhance Go-to-Market timelines.
  • Preserve business as usual and lower transition costs with a dedicated Migration Factory approach. Achieve zero friction application migration such as .NET web apps to the cloud in three, automated steps
  • Augment application DevOps and performance agility with microservice architectures. Embrace serverless computing, container architectures on AWS. Embrace Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, ROSA for containerization purposes, AWS Lambda and Fargate or AWS App Runner for serverless purposes, and Amazon S3, RDS, or Arora for database management. AWS delivers the most complete platform for microservices development.
illustration of application issue management benefit of application modernization with aws

Delays in Application Issue Management

  • Specialized consultants ensure all application migration, modernization, and management issues are met with ease, guaranteeing 24/7 monitoring and application support
  • Automate issue alerts and initiate remedy protocols. Perform automated monitoring and smart risk management with ease. Integrate AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, and more.
illustration of application administration benefit of application modernization with aws

Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

  • Bid adieu to all application management resource hassles with dedicated full stack development, engineering, maintenance, risk handling, application migration, modernization, and delivery experts acting as an extended client team
  • Gain in-depth strategic, advisory, and consulting for application modernization and management end-to-end
illustration of application risk management benefit of application modernization with aws

Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

  • Bolster application security with dedicated security frameworks, architectures firmly integrated within your Organizational DevOps, ITSM.
  • Achieve multilayered enterprise-grade application security across code, delivery pipelines, app runtimes, and databases. Utilize automated tools for scanning, vulnerability management, and encrypting. Build rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications
  • Leverage cutting-edge cloud-native security solutions such as AWS IAM, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Network Firewall, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Key Management Service, Amazon Cognito, etc
illustration of regulatory and compliance management benefit of application modernization with aws

Regulatory and compliance hassles

  • Applications backed and hosted on compliant-ready architectures, platforms, systems including local regulations, data residency laws, international standards - PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2.
  • Avail specialized cloud-native tools to govern and implement compliance checks across adopted systems. Improve threat protection and extensive compliance checks with AWS Audit Manager
illustration of DR, backend infra mangagement benefit of application modernization with aws

Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

  • Secure your Business Continuity Planning with automated Enterprise Applications Recovery-backup, stringent RTO/RPO, DR Drills, or specialized DRaaS solution on cloud
  • Host your applications, backend data center assets including SaaS applications, web applications, critical enterprise systems on your closest location or across multiple regions to minimize disaster risks. Choose your nearest AWS hosting location.
  • Build personalized mobile workforce applications to enable fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted, and collaborative remote development environments
illustration of digital transformation benefit of application modernization with aws

Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

  • Enhance application performance, responsiveness, interactivity, user experience with cutting-edge automation solutions including RPA. Streamline CI/CD with AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
  • Maximize intelligent automation in application operations with fully modern application development platforms including automated logging, scaling, availability, and predictive alerting.
  • Avail cloud-native and proprietary AI, Data Analytics solutions to unlock enterprise intelligence and data-powered decision-making. Build application innovation capabilities with Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Augmented AI, Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon Elastic Inference, etc.

Common Challenges

  • Rising costs for application upgrades

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of upgrade benefit of application modernization with aws

    Rising costs for application upgrades

    • With applications modernized on the AWS cloud, achieve excellent, near real-time application upgrade capabilities at a flexible, pay-as-you-use model.
    • Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild enterprise applications with ease to leverage the advanced benefits of AWS.
    • With AWS-powered modern application development environments, embrace cloud-native architectures for management agility, automate processes to truncate costs at every stage of the application management journey
  • Lack of Universality

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of universality benefit of application modernization with aws

    Lack of Universality

    • Gain a universal dashboard overview and control for all applications modernized on the AWS Cloud including private IT environments, private clouds, multiple adopted clouds, third party enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Infosys, Databases)
    • Achieve seamless integration between heterogeneous, complex environments (applications, backend systems, and data) via AWS native connectors and APIs such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync. Integrate no-code API integration with Amazon AppFlow.
  • Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application performance benefit of application modernization with aws

    Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

    • Quickly deploy web apps and APIs on the AWS Cloud. Seamlessly develop with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers using native containerization solutions such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, ROSA, etc
    • Scale application performance basis requirements, gain high availability of 99.95%, and hyper agility. Leverage AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify for effective traffic routing, load balancing with serverless operations structures.
  • Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of business contintuity benefit of application modernization with aws

    Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

    • Zero disruptions to backend application infra including servers, networks, storage, compute on the cloud. Enhance Go-to-Market timelines.
    • Preserve business as usual and lower transition costs with a dedicated Migration Factory approach. Achieve zero friction application migration such as .NET web apps to the cloud in three, automated steps
    • Augment application DevOps and performance agility with microservice architectures. Embrace serverless computing, container architectures on AWS. Embrace Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, ROSA for containerization purposes, AWS Lambda and Fargate or AWS App Runner for serverless purposes, and Amazon S3, RDS, or Arora for database management. AWS delivers the most complete platform for microservices development.
  • Delays in Application Issue Management

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application issue management benefit of application modernization with aws

    • Specialized consultants ensure all application migration, modernization, and management issues are met with ease, guaranteeing 24/7 monitoring and application support
    • Automate issue alerts and initiate remedy protocols. Perform automated monitoring and smart risk management with ease. Integrate AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, and more.
  • Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application administration benefit of application modernization with aws

    Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

    • Bid adieu to all application management resource hassles with dedicated full stack development, engineering, maintenance, risk handling, application migration, modernization, and delivery experts acting as an extended client team
    • Gain in-depth strategic, advisory, and consulting for application modernization and management end-to-end
  • Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application risk management benefit of application modernization with aws

    Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

    • Bolster application security with dedicated security frameworks, architectures firmly integrated within your Organizational DevOps, ITSM.
    • Achieve multilayered enterprise-grade application security across code, delivery pipelines, app runtimes, and databases. Utilize automated tools for scanning, vulnerability management, and encrypting. Build rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications
    • Leverage cutting-edge cloud-native security solutions such as AWS IAM, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Network Firewall, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Key Management Service, Amazon Cognito, etc
  • Regulatory and compliance hassles

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of regulatory and compliance management benefit of application modernization with aws

    Regulatory and compliance hassles

    • Applications backed and hosted on compliant-ready architectures, platforms, systems including local regulations, data residency laws, international standards - PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2.
    • Avail specialized cloud-native tools to govern and implement compliance checks across adopted systems. Improve threat protection and extensive compliance checks with AWS Audit Manager
  • Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of DR, backend infra mangagement benefit of application modernization with aws

    Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

    • Secure your Business Continuity Planning with automated Enterprise Applications Recovery-backup, stringent RTO/RPO, DR Drills, or specialized DRaaS solution on cloud
    • Host your applications, backend data center assets including SaaS applications, web applications, critical enterprise systems on your closest location or across multiple regions to minimize disaster risks. Choose your nearest AWS hosting location.
    • Build personalized mobile workforce applications to enable fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted, and collaborative remote development environments
  • Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of digital transformation benefit of application modernization with aws

    Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

    • Enhance application performance, responsiveness, interactivity, user experience with cutting-edge automation solutions including RPA. Streamline CI/CD with AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
    • Maximize intelligent automation in application operations with fully modern application development platforms including automated logging, scaling, availability, and predictive alerting.
    • Avail cloud-native and proprietary AI, Data Analytics solutions to unlock enterprise intelligence and data-powered decision-making. Build application innovation capabilities with Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Augmented AI, Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon Elastic Inference, etc.

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The 6 R Application Modernization Framework on AWS Cloud: Which Model fits your Enterprise Best?

Application modernization on the cloud is a dire necessity to revitalize IT operations and scale up delivery, service experiences. However, most enterprises only lift and shift applications and end up with massively limited, degraded performances due to the lack of sufficient app modernization on cloud experts. Cloud4C’s exhaustive cloud strategy, development, full-stack architecture, maintenance, and security engineers act as an extended team to modernize a client’s application environment end-to-end on the AWS Cloud.

With the advanced 6 R Methodology, rehash and reboot your applications to unlock extra agility, enhanced performance, and end-user excellence powered by an intelligent AWS cloud backend. You can start your AWS application modernization journey with a free discovery workshop.

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Repurchase

(Drop and Shop)

This phase involves minimalistic transformation to migrate to a cloud-based environment. The enterprise drops the existing on-prem license of the software being used and moves onto the cloud-based version of the same software, essentially repurchasing the license.

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Rehost

(Lift and Shift)

Identify the applications and existing workloads to be migrated and lift and shift them to the cloud ecosystem. The migration involves cutting-edge native tools and support services that help move the application stack from the existing on-prem to the cloud environment

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Replatform

(Lift, Change, Shift)

This process involves the same methodology as that of rehosting platforms and applications from the on-prem environment to the cloud ecosystem. However, here, some customizations are made to ensure that the platforms run best on the cloud.

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Refactor/ Rearchitect

This phase or approach involves the most effort and expenses as the existing on-prem applications, databases, and workloads are significantly over-hauled, often at the codebase levels, to move them to the cloud. A common approach in this phase is to break up monolithic structures into microservice architectures for advanced performance on the cloud. Hence, such an approach ensures leveraging the best features of the cloud as the software is redesigned to match the cloud’s native environment.

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Retire

This practice involves the recognition of applications or platforms that are redundant and would cause unnecessary load/overprovisioning on the cloud thereby shooting up operational costs. Under such circumstances, firms might opine to retire and replace the application altogether in favor of a cloud-friendlier version.

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Retain

Businesses might opt to keep some legacy, on-prem applications running as they are delivering high performances and linked to critical projects. In such a case, the other core systems might run from the cloud and the retained on-prem applications might operate standalone or in sync with the cloud apps via APIs.

A Deep Dive into the Cloud4C Application Modernization Services for AWS Cloud

Avail Cloud4C’s industry-leading Migration Factory approach to streamline your enterprise and SaaS application workloads and resources, PaaS platforms migration on AWS. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, gain high ROI value, fast deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate seamlessly with existing ITSM processes.  Leverage AWS-native solutions to migrate .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based applications, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to AWS cloud in just simple, automated steps.  Exercise a lean application lifecycle environment across the entire organization including CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps augmentation, and SysOps processes. Gain breakthrough application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and always-on availability.

With the power of AWS cloud-native architecture, Cloud4C helps integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, information management, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, OpenText, industry applications on AWS Cloud Platform. Seamlessly build, deploy, test, run, and scale web applications, integrate with virtualized networks, embed containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance. Achieve high availability of 99.95% and seamlessly scale applications globally with zero disruption.

Host, manage, administer, and secure databases for mission-critical enterprise ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications including on-prem, Edge, and IoT environments with ease on the AWS Cloud. Cloud4C addresses SQL OpenSource Database applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, SAP HANA; NoSQL Open source database applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, etc. Fully managed cloud-based databases ensure high data availability, scalability, and easy access to cutting-edge analytical solutions. Embed top-notch security solutions and cloud-based firewalls for world-class data protection.

Integrity of old and new applications and their backend architectures, databases is an essential condition to achieve seamless frontend operations across diverse IT landscapes. With applications transited and modernized on the AWS cloud, bolster application integrity with multi-purpose APIs and event-driven architectures. The latter allows easy synchronization of divergent applications with other databases, apps, systems, platforms, and backend infra as and when required. Also, enhance remote workflow management with configurable, customizable, and fully administered remote development environments, remote workforce applications, and more.

A modernized DevOps environment is critical to accelerate your product delivery lifecycle integrating collaborative teams and technologies. Leverage the power of DevOps environments augmented by AWS Cloud tools and services with new features, embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the entire Software Development Lifecycle. Embed key technologies such as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for AWS Cloud (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), orchestration, Infrastructure as a Code to align your DevOps environment across multiple application landscapes. Leverage Cloud4C’s key toolkit expertise in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems building, automation, and testing to boost your DevOps and application practices on the cloud. With the AWS advantage, develop applications on the language of choice - .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice, enhance developer productivity, and streamline CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline. Accelerate go to market timelines and ensure an enterprise that’s agile by design.

The world is rapidly transcending from monolithic architectures that have powered legacy applications and software for decades to loosely coupled microservices. The major issue with such traditional structures is in their unparalleled rigidity, making life difficult for engineers to spot sneaky code errors or make major updates. With the cloud revolution powering modernized development environments to ensure consistent customer success, break up legacy applications and design new software in a powerful modularized fashion: abstracted components dedicated to running critical functions, weaved together into a central whole via advanced tools. Such modularized, self-functioning software segments makes it easy to pinpoint errors, push upgrades, and automate the delivery process for faster provisioning and running into live environments. This also assists in load balancing and traffic management. Individual server functions running each of the microservice segments can be independently scaled up or down based on traffic requirements without affecting the entire software’s performance, thereby reducing unnecessary server overprovisioning and reducing costs.

If microservices is considered to transform the way applications and software are developed or designed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service ensures the same are run on the cloud in an equally agile and transformative manner. Under this process, once the developed code is pushed to the cloud, the microservice modules or functions are assigned independent servers/fire only when the particular function is called, thereby reducing idle running or overprovisioning. Hence, under this architecture, the enterprise simply needs to push the modules to the cloud environment and the latter takes care of the rest, even to the point of assigning servers to run the same. Embrace the Functions-as-a-Service approach for the app modernization process including frontend apps, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, virtual machines, and more. Integrate microservices architecture with containerization to leverage FaaS on AWS to the fullest. With serverless event processing, design and develop the architecture of an event-driven application that ingests data streams, processes the same on the cloud, and synchronizes the results back to back-end databases at zero disruption, null data loss, and ultra-low latency. Leverage AWS native tools to enable serverless operations: AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify, AWS CDK, AWS App Runner.

With numerous cloud-native tools, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity experts, gain end-to-end protection of all your application assets. Leverage the advanced Managed Detection and Response platform for automated threat, malware management. Lower Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, avail complete end-point security and utilize advanced data analytics to gain unique security management insights. Avail 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management, Firewalls management, API security, app database threat management, network monitoring with dedicated cloud-native tools. Embrace game-changing preventive maintenance capabilities with Cloud4C’s proprietary SHOP (Self-Healing Operations Platform).

With Cloud4C’s application managed services for AWS Cloud, avail a globally compliant-ready application architecture that includes stringent adherence to local-national-global regulations such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2. Adhere to data residency and locality laws easily with secure, in-country hosting. Embrace stringent compliance checks over your application assets. Let compliance issues never deter your application functionalities and organization’s progress again.

Streamlined integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to help businesses achieve near-zero operational outage. Avail advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management solutions for your applications and related assets with stringent, custom RPO/RTO standards. Build your custom DR strategy on the AWS cloud leveraging DRaaS architecture, adopt tailored solutions for business processes, streamline-protect data storage platforms, and opt for periodic DR drills for maximum impact. Avail geo-native AWS hosting for maximum application availability, scalability, performance agility, and uncompromised continuity.

With Cloud4C’s turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can discover the right business processes for automation, extract data from even unstructured sources, automate complex tasks, strategically scale automation across your enterprise and do much more. With our proven process analytics and automation expertise, our certified automation experts have helped many organizations automate some of their core tasks, and transform their businesses.Leverage proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation tools and solutions to modernize application processes, workflows, data and embrace intelligent, informed decision-making capabilities. With applications powered on the AWS cloud backend, choose from hundreds of advanced cloud-native tools and business applications to streamline asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with cloud Machine learning tools: Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Augmented AI, Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon Elastic Inference. AWS’ fully modernized development platform provides automated logging, scaling and high availability, rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive workflows to maximize enterprise applications’ ROI and resilience.

  • Application Migration on AWS and Cost Management

    Avail Cloud4C’s industry-leading Migration Factory approach to streamline your enterprise and SaaS application workloads and resources, PaaS platforms migration on AWS. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, gain high ROI value, fast deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate seamlessly with existing ITSM processes.  Leverage AWS-native solutions to migrate .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based applications, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to AWS cloud in just simple, automated steps.  Exercise a lean application lifecycle environment across the entire organization including CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps augmentation, and SysOps processes. Gain breakthrough application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and always-on availability.

  • Industry and Business Applications Management on AWS

    With the power of AWS cloud-native architecture, Cloud4C helps integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, information management, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, OpenText, industry applications on AWS Cloud Platform. Seamlessly build, deploy, test, run, and scale web applications, integrate with virtualized networks, embed containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance. Achieve high availability of 99.95% and seamlessly scale applications globally with zero disruption.

  • Database Management on AWS

    Host, manage, administer, and secure databases for mission-critical enterprise ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications including on-prem, Edge, and IoT environments with ease on the AWS Cloud. Cloud4C addresses SQL OpenSource Database applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, SAP HANA; NoSQL Open source database applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, etc. Fully managed cloud-based databases ensure high data availability, scalability, and easy access to cutting-edge analytical solutions. Embed top-notch security solutions and cloud-based firewalls for world-class data protection.

  • Application Integration on AWS

    Integrity of old and new applications and their backend architectures, databases is an essential condition to achieve seamless frontend operations across diverse IT landscapes. With applications transited and modernized on the AWS cloud, bolster application integrity with multi-purpose APIs and event-driven architectures. The latter allows easy synchronization of divergent applications with other databases, apps, systems, platforms, and backend infra as and when required. Also, enhance remote workflow management with configurable, customizable, and fully administered remote development environments, remote workforce applications, and more.

  • DevOps powered by AWS

    A modernized DevOps environment is critical to accelerate your product delivery lifecycle integrating collaborative teams and technologies. Leverage the power of DevOps environments augmented by AWS Cloud tools and services with new features, embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the entire Software Development Lifecycle. Embed key technologies such as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for AWS Cloud (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service), orchestration, Infrastructure as a Code to align your DevOps environment across multiple application landscapes. Leverage Cloud4C’s key toolkit expertise in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems building, automation, and testing to boost your DevOps and application practices on the cloud. With the AWS advantage, develop applications on the language of choice - .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice, enhance developer productivity, and streamline CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline. Accelerate go to market timelines and ensure an enterprise that’s agile by design.

  • Microservices on AWS

    The world is rapidly transcending from monolithic architectures that have powered legacy applications and software for decades to loosely coupled microservices. The major issue with such traditional structures is in their unparalleled rigidity, making life difficult for engineers to spot sneaky code errors or make major updates. With the cloud revolution powering modernized development environments to ensure consistent customer success, break up legacy applications and design new software in a powerful modularized fashion: abstracted components dedicated to running critical functions, weaved together into a central whole via advanced tools. Such modularized, self-functioning software segments makes it easy to pinpoint errors, push upgrades, and automate the delivery process for faster provisioning and running into live environments. This also assists in load balancing and traffic management. Individual server functions running each of the microservice segments can be independently scaled up or down based on traffic requirements without affecting the entire software’s performance, thereby reducing unnecessary server overprovisioning and reducing costs.

  • Serverless Architecture on AWS

    If microservices is considered to transform the way applications and software are developed or designed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service ensures the same are run on the cloud in an equally agile and transformative manner. Under this process, once the developed code is pushed to the cloud, the microservice modules or functions are assigned independent servers/fire only when the particular function is called, thereby reducing idle running or overprovisioning. Hence, under this architecture, the enterprise simply needs to push the modules to the cloud environment and the latter takes care of the rest, even to the point of assigning servers to run the same. Embrace the Functions-as-a-Service approach for the app modernization process including frontend apps, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, virtual machines, and more. Integrate microservices architecture with containerization to leverage FaaS on AWS to the fullest. With serverless event processing, design and develop the architecture of an event-driven application that ingests data streams, processes the same on the cloud, and synchronizes the results back to back-end databases at zero disruption, null data loss, and ultra-low latency. Leverage AWS native tools to enable serverless operations: AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify, AWS CDK, AWS App Runner.

  • Application Security and Event Management on AWS

    With numerous cloud-native tools, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity experts, gain end-to-end protection of all your application assets. Leverage the advanced Managed Detection and Response platform for automated threat, malware management. Lower Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, avail complete end-point security and utilize advanced data analytics to gain unique security management insights. Avail 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management, Firewalls management, API security, app database threat management, network monitoring with dedicated cloud-native tools. Embrace game-changing preventive maintenance capabilities with Cloud4C’s proprietary SHOP (Self-Healing Operations Platform).

  • Compliant-ready Application Architecture on AWS

    With Cloud4C’s application managed services for AWS Cloud, avail a globally compliant-ready application architecture that includes stringent adherence to local-national-global regulations such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2. Adhere to data residency and locality laws easily with secure, in-country hosting. Embrace stringent compliance checks over your application assets. Let compliance issues never deter your application functionalities and organization’s progress again.

  • DR and Business Continuity Planning on AWS

    Streamlined integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to help businesses achieve near-zero operational outage. Avail advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management solutions for your applications and related assets with stringent, custom RPO/RTO standards. Build your custom DR strategy on the AWS cloud leveraging DRaaS architecture, adopt tailored solutions for business processes, streamline-protect data storage platforms, and opt for periodic DR drills for maximum impact. Avail geo-native AWS hosting for maximum application availability, scalability, performance agility, and uncompromised continuity.

  • Automation and Intelligence on AWS

    With Cloud4C’s turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can discover the right business processes for automation, extract data from even unstructured sources, automate complex tasks, strategically scale automation across your enterprise and do much more. With our proven process analytics and automation expertise, our certified automation experts have helped many organizations automate some of their core tasks, and transform their businesses.Leverage proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation tools and solutions to modernize application processes, workflows, data and embrace intelligent, informed decision-making capabilities. With applications powered on the AWS cloud backend, choose from hundreds of advanced cloud-native tools and business applications to streamline asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with cloud Machine learning tools: Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Augmented AI, Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon Elastic Inference. AWS’ fully modernized development platform provides automated logging, scaling and high availability, rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive workflows to maximize enterprise applications’ ROI and resilience.

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Fail-proof, Zero Loss Implementation: Into the Cloud4C Application Migration and Modernization Factory Approach

PHASE 1: ASSESSMENT
  • Discovery Workshops
  • Industry and geo-specific frameworks
  • Assessing at-risk applications and loopholes
  • Risk and security assessment with priority points
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis with Risk Mitigation Costs
  • Cloud4C Endorsement Priorities
  • Recommendation priorities for application modernization
  • Stakeholder buy-in and funds
PHASE 2: PLAN
  • Laying out the modernization blueprint
  • App migration and transformation approaches
  • Migration strategy and target landscapes for deployment
  • Development and Testing Plans
  • Document Impact Plan and Document Project Milestones
  • Budgeting
  • Stakeholder buy-ins and funds release
PHASE 3: EXECUTION
  • Project Kick-off
  • Configure Cloud Platforms
  • Quality Checks
  • Security Checks and Authorization
  • App Health and Functionality Check
  • Report Status to Migration Teams
  • ROI Validation
  • De-commission Technologies
  • Project Sign-Off

Why Adopt the Cloud4C Application Migration and Modernization Factory Approach?

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In-depth discovery workshops and end-to-end consultations across the entire application migration project lifecycle

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Fail-proof, secure, and risk-averse application migration framework tailored to organizational needs and objectives

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Robust industry, geography, and compliance-specific Cloud4C Application Migration factory approach for faster migration at zero disruption

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Comprehensive transition strategy involving the entire applications partner ecosystem to seamlessly achieve organization’s transformation objectives

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Leveraging cloud-native & underlying certified migration tools powered by automation and intelligence to enable quicker transition, faster Go-to-Market (GTM), and enhanced ROI

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Leveraging AWS modernized app development environments to develop highly available, custom applications for any ecosystem

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Leveraging built-in application monitoring tools to monitor application health and performance, availability and usage of all enterprise web applications

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Embrace the built-in security control for application networks, monitoring & logging, identity management, data protection, and configuration management. Secure advanced protection for web apps via cybersecurity best practices

AWS Native Tools and Services: Cloud4C Expertise in Designing a Modernized Application Ecosystem

Fully managed containerization and container performance, operations management

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Building applications and implementing serverless ecosystems

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Modernizing app data infrastructure and workloads

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Deploy and Run with a Modern DevOps environment

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Success Stories

Large Hardware Retailer
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Large Hardware Retailer

Middle East’s leading hardware retailer ensures pandemic proof, high peak application performance operations with secure AWS hosting.

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Digital Communication Giant

Secure, highly efficient AWS-based cloud interaction support for leading Communications Platform as a Service provider in Asia.

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Design and Printing Major

USA’s digital media goliath augments productivity through AWS-backed, cost-effective information and workflow management including IT Modernization.

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Food Packaging Leader

Global Food Packaging Manufacturer leverages customized SAP HANA Architecture and application management on AWS at 99.95% uptime.

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Why Partner with Cloud4C for your Application Modernization Journey on AWS Cloud?

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One of the most trusted Managed AWS cloud services and Application Modernization providers in APAC, MEA, and the Americas for 12+ years

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World’s largest Application-focused, high-end managed services provider with AIOps-driven AWS Managed Operations as a dedicated AWS Partner

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24/7 Support backed by 2000+ cloud certified experts (including Kubernetes, DevOps experts) adept with robust ITIL, ITSM, CoBIT delivery processes, 26 dedicated Centers of Excellence

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Zero Friction AWS Application Modernization Model with industry-leading Application Migration Factory approach, 25000+ Apps, and Databases migrated

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4000+ enterprise customers including 60 of Fortune 500 companies including 5 of Top 20 Global Banks

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Presence in 26 nations worldwide including successful deployment of Public, Private, Hybrid, Multi, and Community AWS Cloud platforms

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High application availability 99.95%, hyper-scalability, industry-best uptime with fail-proof 50,000+ transactions per hour

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Proven SAP on AWS Cloud expertise managing 10,000+ SAP instances and 2300+ TB of HANA Database

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Proven expertise with IBM, Oracle, OpenText, Infosys, and cloud-native enterprise applications management including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS transformation on AWS Cloud

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Host and deploy applications at the AWS region of choice ensuring high availability and zero disruptions

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Proven end-to-end Application Modernization expertise with dedicated development, engineering, maintenance, administration, security monitoring acumen

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Dedicated DR on AWS offerings for heterogeneous, complex application environments with automated recovery-backup, failback-failover mechanisms

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 Dedicated Application Managed Security Services on AWS Expertise, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated SOCs

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Cloud4C proprietary automation solutions including Self-healing Operations, Automation Delivery platforms, and RPA solutions

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Expertise with hundreds of AWS cloud-native tools and applications, best managed according to tailored business processes

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Cost-effective Pay-per-use model under single SLA

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1 Billion+ Fail-safe Application Managed Hosting Hours administering 40000+ VMs

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Strict compliance to regulatory and in-country data residency standards

AWS Application Modernization - FAQs

  • What is meant by App modernization on the Cloud?

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    Application modernization on cloud entitles customizing, rearchitecting, or fine-tuning applications to seamlessly integrate and run with the adopted cloud platform.

    Legacy applications are often hardwired to specific systems, kernels, or backends and hence perform poorly on cloud if simply lifted and shifted.

    To leverage the best of the advanced cloud architecture and ensure high workload performance, modernizing applications should be on the top of the bucket list for enterprise owners.

  • How do you achieve application modernization?

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    Application modernization could be done in six fundamental approaches or the 6 Rs: Repurchase, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Retain.

    The first approach involves simple transition of the usage of an on-prem software to its cloud version, essentially changing licenses.

    Rehost involves lifting and shifting applications as is to the cloud environment while Replatform includes the same methodology but with a few customizations for better performance on the cloud.

    Refactor or Rearchitect involves a complete overhaul of the applications, including breaking down monolithic structures into simpler modules or microservices and redesigning codebases to not only migrate them to cloud but making them cloud-ready end-to-end.

    Retire and Retain involves practices to replace worn-out, redundant software or retaining existing, highly critical on-prem applications as-is, respectively.

  • What are the main components of application modernization?

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    Application modernization impacts the entire app’s lifecycle, inputs, and outputs.

    Hence, to fully modernize applications, enterprises must also refactor app databases, fine tune database management platforms, modify application networks-protocols-libraries, customize servers, integrate with DevOps, and streamline app security.

    Firms can leverage services of application modernization partners like Cloud4C or native cloud-tools to achieve the above without disruption.

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