Enterprises have developed complex portfolios of enterprise applications commonly built on SAP, Oracle, Windows, and SQL Server. Moving these application portfolios to the cloud is imperative in order to free up resources and gain agility for the business. This session shows how AWS can help your enterprise achieve value faster, reducing its time to cloud maturity by utilizing best practices and strategies developed by working with hundreds of customers on their large-scale migrations.

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H O N G K O N G
Best practices for migrating your
enterprise workloads to AWS
Rebeker Choi
Manager, Solutions Architecture

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Agility and staff
productivity
Outsourcing changes
EOL HW/SW
Going global
quickly, M&A
Improved security and
operational resilience
Cost reduction
IoT and AI/ML
Business drivers for migrating to the cloud
Data center
consolidation
Digital
transformation

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Some migration success stories
Consolidated 56 data centers down to 6, moved 75% of infrastructure to the cloud,
and reallocated more than $100M to key business drivers
Migrated approx. 5,500 instances in 9 months, reduced storage costs by 50% and
compute costs by 20%, and sped up provisioning 10x from 4 weeks to 2 days
Migrated their big data analytics platform to AWS, which is over 20 PB of data for
analytics and surveillance and processes up to 75 bullion events per day
Releases 50+ deployments per hour
In under 14 months, migrated more than 600 workloads—including some Unix to
Linux conversions—to AWS, driving year-over-year cost reduction, and cut processing
time from 36 hours to 10 seconds

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How do I create a business case?
what’s the impact to my current
governance control?
How do I get started?
How do I move these workloads?
What do we do after we migrate?
What should I move to the cloud?
How do I get my team re-skilled?
Common questions

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Migration process
Migration Preparation
& Business Case
Portfolio Discovery
& Planning
Migration Operations &
optimizations

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Migration process: Migration Preparation & Business
Case
Migration Preparation
& Business Case
Portfolio Discovery
& Planning
Migration Operations &
optimizations

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Migration Preparation & Business Case
Executive
sponsorship

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Migration Preparation & Business Case
People Process Tech
Foundational
capabilities
Executive
sponsorship

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Foundational Capabilities
VPN
Direct
Connect
Accounts
Central
Services
Security Network
Identity
& Access
Domains
Start Build & Iterate
Service
Catalog
IAM Config
S3 CloudTrail Lambda
Cloud center of excellence
Technical training
Hiring people and partners
Communication plan
Landing zone
Security foundation
Operations tools
Operations model
Provisioning
Billing optimization
Security operations
People Process Tech

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Mass Migration Preparation
People Process Tech
Foundational
experience
Executive
sponsorship
Business
case

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OPERATIONAL COSTSWORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITYCOST AVOIDANCEOPERATIONAL RESILIENCEBUSINESS AGILITY
98% reduction in
P1/P0s
77% faster to deliver
business applications
52% average TCO
savings
35% reduction in
compute assets (792)
15 automated bots
developed
80% cloud first adoption
15 cloud services
created
50 applications
decommissioned
8 cloud migration partiesImproved security
posture
Shift to self-service
culture
Rapid experimentation
Reduced technical debt 14M YOY Savings
Improved PerformanceStreamlined M&A
Activity
DevOps in Practice
$20M
Investment
Focus
18
Months
300+ Apps
Migrated
$14M YOY
Savings&

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Migration process: Portfolio Discovery & Planning
Migration Preparation
& Business Case
Portfolio Discovery
& Planning
Migration Operations &
optimizations

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Portfolio Discovery & Planning
Disconnected and incomplete data Discover and organize data 7 Rs
Applications
Performance
Infrastructure
Level
of
effort
Retire
Retain
Relocate
Rehost
Repurchase
Re-platform
Refactor
Tribal
knowledge
SLA/OLA
App configuration
data
Asset
inventories
CMDB Architecture
Performance
information
Automation
and guidance
AWS Application
Discovery Service
Amazon Athena

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Seven common migration strategies: The 7 Rs
Redesign
Application/
Infrastructure Architecture
App Code
Development
Full ALM /
SDLC
Integration
Purchase COTS/
SaaS & licensing
Manual Install
& Setup
Modify underlying
Infrastructure
Determine
new platform
Retain /
Revisit
Manual Config
Manual Deploy
Manual Install
Retire /
Decommission
Discover/Assess/Prioritize
Applications
Determine
Migration
Path
Use Migration Tools
Transition ProductionValidation
Automate

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Spectrum of Complexity
Re-host
Re-architect
Re-purchase
Re-platform
Level of Effort
QUICK WINS
EASY OPTIMIZATIONS
SAAS-IFY BACK OFFICE
MODERNIZE LEGACY
Value

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Migration Organizational Strategies
Portfolio Discovery
& Planning
Re-architect
By Line of Business
Landing Zone
Platform Integration
Operational
Integration
Migration
Project Control
By Migration Strategy
Cloud Center of Excellence Migration Teams
Scale as Needed
Re-host
Re-platform
Re-factor

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Landing zone facilitates getting started
AWS Control Tower
Manage
accounts
and policies
Set up
environment
Enable control
Establish
cost controls
Improve
over time

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Migration process: Migration
Migration Preparation
& Business Case
Portfolio Discovery
& Planning
Migration Operations &
optimizations

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Migration automation & tools
SERVER & DB MIGRATION
ADDITIONAL 3RD PARTY
MIGRATION TOOLS
DATA TRANSFER
S3 Transfer Acceleration
AWS Storage and File Gateway
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Snowball
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
AWS Server Migration Service
AWS Database Migration Service
VMWare Cloud on AWS
PARTNERS
& Snowmobile
AWS Migration Hub AWS Application Discovery Service
AWS Schema Conversion Tool

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AWS Migration Hub
A single location to track the progress of application migrations across AWS and partner solutions

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Common Hybrid Scenario
Data Center
Data Center
Data Center
On-premises Cloud
Amazon VPC
Amazon Direct Connect
Application 1
Application 2
Application 3

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Migration process: Operations & optimizations
Migration Preparation
& Business Case
Portfolio Discovery
& Planning
Migration Operations &
optimizations

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Iterating On Your Operating Model
Cloud center of excellence
Technical training and certifications
Hiring people and partners
Communication plan
Landing zone
Security foundation
Operations tools
New AWS services
Hybrid integrations
Operations model
Provisioning
Billing optimization
Security operations
Migration process
Discovery and planning
People Process Tech

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Typical Migration Engagement
Build the foundation
Operational readiness
‒ Cloud center of excellence
‒ Landing zone
‒ Operations model
‒ Security and compliance
Clear business case
Migration plan
Achieve business objectives
Scale migration to meet the objectives
outlined in your business case
‒ People
‒ Process
‒ Technology
Migration Preparation
& Business Case
Portfolio Discovery
& Planning
Application
Design
Migration
& Validation
Operate &
Optimize
Determine readiness
Current state
People
Platform
Operations
Security
Clear business case
Clear migration plan
Migration Readiness
Assessment
Migration Readiness and Planning (MRP) Application Migrations

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The most comprehensive set of services and expertise
AWS and Partner
Tools AWS
Partners
Migration
Methodology
AWS
Investment AWS
Training
AWS
Professional
Services
AWS Managed
Services

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