A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO MIGRATING

INTERNAL IT APPS TO THE AWS CLOUD

Jerry Hunter, VP Amazon Corporate IT

Faster-Better-Cheaper

Corporate IT

Financial Systems

HR SystemsLaptops/Desktops &

Telecom

Developer Tools

Email & Calendar

Knowledge Management Tools

Employee Tools & Corporate Systems

OUT OF SCOPE

Amazon.com Website Supply Chain Management

Customer Service Center Software

Payments

Systems

3rd Party

Seller

Technologies

motivations

Run everything on AWS

Start with goalsPhase the Migration

All new applications need to be deployed on AWS

• Set up program infrastructure

• Assess systems & requirements

• Engage AWSScope

• Deploy pilot applications

• Test performance & availabilityDeploy & Test

• Migrate data and apps in phases

• Make it easy for developersMigrate & Launch

• Geography – where are the apps running?

• Dependencies

• Application criticality

• Data classification

• Compliance requirements

• Application architecture & hardware components– Migrate to virts wherever possible pre-migration

SYSTEM ASSESSMENT

Does AWS meet our security requirements?

Get your security folks engaged early!

Does AWS meet our security requirements?

What do we need to do to ensure our applications are

secure?

OUR DEPLOYMENT MODEL

Employees

We extend our internal network

into the cloud, securely hosting

internal applications on EC2

within a VPC.

Deploy pilot applications

Don’t make it hard…

…make it easy.

CASE STUDY 1: BROADCAST.AMAZON.COM

CASE STUDY 1: BROADCAST – THE AWS VERSION

Users

Dynamically Scaled

Video Rendering

Unlimited Video

Storage

Web

Front-End

MySql

Encryption

Rendering

Job Manager

Amazon

Internal Network

• 900 hrs of video encoded in 5 days

(would have taken 112 days)

• 2 software engineers, 3 weeks

CASE STUDY 2: BMC REMEDY MID-TIER

Amazon EC2 instances hosting

part of Remedy mid-tier server

fleet spread across three data

centers

Employees

DC1

DC2

DC3

Load

Balancer

Amazon

Internal Network

CASE STUDY 3: SHAREPOINT INDEXER USING AWS

Document Feeds

Sharepoint

Crawler

Encryption

Decryption

Amazon

Internal Network

Indexer

Internal

Search

SDB

• Engage Security early – get comfortable

– Access control

– Data security

• Make it easy

– Let a few developers loose; build momentum

– Integrate with your processes where possible

WHAT WE LEARNED

Faster-Better-Cheaper

• Perform your system assessments

• Build support across your organization

• Pilot a single application or two, assign a great developer to it, cut him/her loose

• Evaluate your results

• Get started now!

– aws.amazon.com

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