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A Tale of Three AWS Migrations
1. A Tale of Three AWS
Migrations
Allie Richards
Senior DevOps Engineer
Centro
@hpuxgirl
2. Who is Allie and why should I listen to her?
• 18 years in the tech industry,
focused mostly on
operations/infrastructure
• Worked for a range of companies
(15 people – 50k people)
• Devopsdays Chicago Organizer
• Or maybe just listen to Radish
5. Why move to AWS? Management reasons
• “Best of breed” cloud
hosting solution
• Attract top talent
• “Will it be cheaper?”
• Narrator: it was not!
6. Why move to AWS? Dev reasons
• Provision own environments
• pre-prod can look more like
prod
• Something about Docker
7. Why move to AWS? Ops reasons
• Hardware refresh
• Weak security posture
• Some workloads needed more
power
• Disaster Recovery strategy
needed some help