MIGRATING APPLICATIONS TO AWS

Suliman Lei : Cloud Infrastructure Architect @Delaware North

MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS

Migration Approach & Best Practices Understand Application Stack’s (not Servers)

components that make up the application CPU/Ram /Disk average utilization

Security (public facing vs. private facing)

Know the application owner

Asking the right question! How is the application currently configured ?

Is there current documentation

Networking / Storage / Compute capacity.

IDENTIFY APPLICATIONS TO MOVE

Standalone applications easy to move

Applications with loosely coupled integrations are good candidates.

Tightly integrated applications are hard to move (e.g. Active directory is tightly coupled, may be better to build new and start replication).

INVEST IN PROOF OF CONCEPT EARLY

Proof of concept will answer tons of questions quickly

Will identify gaps and touch points

Give you a good estimation of the task ahead.

MIGRATION CONTINUUM

MIGRATION PROCESS

ON-PREMISES INFRASTRUCTURE MAPPED TO AWS

ON-PREMISES INFRASTRUCTURE MAPPED TO AWS

ELB CAN ACHIEVE HA– ARCHITECTURE

CLOUD FORMATION (CF)

Allows you to create and provision resources in a reusable template fashion.

Allows you to source control your infrastructure by building templates that enable you create/delete resources on demand.

Templates are built using Java Script Object Notation (JSON) syntax Can use git to version your infrastructure Boto is a awsome and powerful tool

ANATOMY OF CF TEMPLATE

Template is made up of 6 sections Declaration – Must follow AWS Template format version. Parameters – Values that can be passed at creation time Mappings – Key/Value pairs of information Conditions Resources – Can be database, EC2, S3, DynamoDb – Only Required

portion. Outputs

TOOL KITS

Use open source when possible Nagios Graphite virtuallyGhetto (vmware tools and scripts)

Good Migration tool kits (paid) CloudEndure

Block by block copy of instance to AWS

THE RIGHT PARTNER

The right partner can make all the difference. CloudReach bring agility and expertise to the table Easy and fun to work with. Tailor fit the solution.