Top 5 Tips for AWS Migration
Presented by Harald Viehweger| Wednesday 13th May 2015
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Just a few clients out of a long list of large scale
AWS cloud adoptions and migrations
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Why the cloud is different
Operate IT
Step 3
Deploy IT
Step 2
Plan IT
Step 1
Traditional Deployment
Cloud Deployment
#1:
#2:
#3:
Enables
Continuous
Deployment
Pay as you Go
Disposable
Infrastructure
#4:
#5:
#6:
Agility &
Speed
Repeatability
Self Service
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Tip #1
Embrace the change, it’s a journey
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Tip #1
Embrace the change, it’s a journey
● Identify and engage with “C” Level Sponsor
○ Passionate about cloud
○ Integrate benefit for sponsor
● Establish strong governance
○ Integrate also all non-IT functional
stakeholders
○ No jump-start
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Tip #1
Embrace the change, it’s a journey
● Identify,drive and communicate
immediate, short-term quick wins
● Gain confidence and move with greater
speed and agility.
○ Embrace it, don’t get left behind.
○ You’ll never look back.
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Tip #2
Get skilled up and grab the right partner
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Tip #2
Get skilled up and grab the right partner
● Old Faces?
○ Rebranding old products as new
○ Great marketing but lack of substance
○ Reliant on traditional service for
revenue
● True cloud provider - It’s in their DNA
○ Pay as you go, No contractual tie ins
○ Elastic, Automated, self-provisioned
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Tip #2
Get skilled up and grab the right partner
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Tip #3
Know your stats
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Tip #3
Know your stats - to plan ahead
● Collect meaningful mid-term technical stats
○ Inventory - CMDB
○ CPU, Memory, Network
○ IO - tricky but well worth knowing
○ Ingress/egress traffic
○ Storage capacity, usage and tiers
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Tip #3
Know your stats - to show the value
● Don’t forget business KPIs and stats
○ Time to deploy, provision, change
○ Process Quality - eg. Patch deployment,
compliance
○ Service Availability
○ Performance, user/business satisfaction
○ Unit Costs / Service costs
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Tip #4
Keep the end game in mind
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Tip #4
Keep the end game in mind
● Focus is key during a migration
○ Establish and document the objectives
○ Prioritize - Must, Nice to have, optional
● Use different techniques
○ Lift and Shift, Cloudify
○ Re-architect from scratch
○ Templating (Cloudformation/Chef/
Opsworks)
● Migrate then iterate
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Tip #4
Keep the end game in mind
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Tip #5
Plan ahead
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Tip #5
Plan ahead - New, additional disciplines and skills required
outside of IT
xOps
Break / fix &
Patching
FinOps
Optimisation &
Operation
DevOps
Provisioning &
Orchestration
SecOps
Governance &
Compliance
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Plan ahead
● Example: Financial Management - FinOPS
○ Big advantage - it’s an opportunity
○ AWS costs need to be managed
○ Goes hand in hand with governance
○ Provides transparency
○ Training and upskilling super important
○ Engineers don’t make for good optimisers
○ You need Optimisation skills
■ well organised, tenacious, analytical
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Recap
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Tips #1 to #5
Let’s recap
#1 - Embrace the change, it’s a journey
#2 - Get skilled up and grab the right partner
#3 - Know your stats
#4 - Keep the end game in mind
#5 - Plan ahead
Remember - keep it cloudy!
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