The race to the cloud is on, with enterprises everywhere migrating core infrastructure to stay competitive and cost effective. But when it comes to the messaging systems that power cross-component communications, a simple "lift and shift" isn't adequate and can be a recipe for failure. The migration path is riddled with complex decisions and design pitfalls unique to every use case. In this session, AWS Cloud Support expert Tom will walk you through the critical stages of rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring, showing you how to unlock maximum performance and reliability for messaging systems. Additionally, Tom will compare traditional message brokers with more modernized serverless messaging services on AWS. By the end of the session, you will have a much more comprehensive understanding of the migration prcess, key questions to ask and some best practices for harnessing the benefits of Cloud.

Tom is a Cloud Support Engineer at AWS with five years of dedicated experience. He has gained extensive expertise in cloud-based messaging systems by guiding hundreds of customers through the process of migrating their on-premise systems to the cloud and troubleshooting any issues that arise.