Introduction

The origins of this book can be traced back to March 2019, after four conference presentations I gave in France at the Econocom DevOps Summit. All participants—from 15 prestigious international companies representing the energy, aviation, aerospace, defense, and banking industries—agreed that the ongoing wave of IT infrastructure migrations to cloud computing was only the preparatory phase for a more strategic milestone: equipping businesses with the digital products and services development platform that they need to compete.

As one who was consulting and writing on both cloud computing and digital transformation, my objective over the most recent three-year period has been to raise awareness about the key role that digital products and services will play in business competitiveness and on the importance of properly transforming a business into a high-quality digital products and services development organization.

This book explains how businesses can take advantage of the rich set of Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and features to transform themselves into world-class digital products and services development organizations. It's written for CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise architects seeking an actionable vision, best practices, and solutions to digital transformation. Above all, this book seeks to guide the implementation of world-class digital products and services development platforms.

While there are numerous digital transformation books on the market, ...

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