Modernization involves implementing business processes and technology that provide your business applications with high availability, agility, and elasticity. Nowhere is this more important than in breaking apart the monolith. Modernizing an application as part of a migration can be extremely successful if you follow the AWS migration methodology of 'discover, plan, migrate, and optimize' as you move that application to the cloud. In this session, we share what we learned from over 400 successful migrations. We also show you how to virtually break a monolith to a modernized architecture as part of the planning phase and accelerate your migration using container technologies and application discovery tools.