DAY 8 – Strategies and Tools to Perform Large-Scale Migrations: Part I
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What is a cloud migration?
Moving application, data, and your IT infrastructure resources to a cloud computing environment.
Drivers to migrating to cloud
- scenarios like re architecting your current apps to ☁️ cloud native.
- Going serverless on ☁️ cloud.
- Increase in business agility 🕴️ , improve productivity by 30% to 70% .
- Competitive advantage.
- Less physical infrastructure management, everything will be in cloud ☁️.
Some barriers you can expect during your cloud adoption
- Existing investment 💰.
- Upfront expenses .
- Skeptical Skate holders🤝.
- Application interdependencies ↪️.
- Concerns of down time during migration ⬇️.
- lack of cloud expertise ⛈️.
How can you Make your Cloud Migration Journey Successful
Executive Sponsorship🤵
Provides clarity on business propose, align clarity on business and technical requirement.
Cloud First Strategy ☁️
Create a Vision, Motivate and encourage team Members to follow the Vision. Support them in each stage when they need you.
Organizational Change🏢
Define operating model , implement cloud native policies process and opportunities for training.
RoadMap 🛣️
Define your roadmap , Start small and iterate , measure , manage and update the plan
Cloud Center of excellence 👔
Provide centralized expertise and guide for innovation & to understand cloud migration.
Principles and standards 🧭
Guide team to understand principals and standards in cloud migration
Experiment🧪
Ability to experiment and recommendation on architecture will also help in successful migration.
Common Migration Strategies
Rehost or Lift and Shift🏋️.
AWS System manager ca help to do this automatically. Application can be re-Architecting will be easier once the infrastructure is in cloud.
Re-platform or Lift and Reshape⛅.
Adopting managed platforms. Also understand the app and migrate to the right service like containers or serverless solutions.
Repurchase 💳.
Changing current product license to get a cloud native product.
Refactor and Re-Architect 🎛️
Good for business goals like more feature and functions. Most expensive solution , if SOA (service oriented architecture) is required by business this is the right choice.
Retire or Retain 📝.
Identify the resources that can be retired and focus on running and innovate more with cloud.
Retain required infrastructure.
Understanding the adoption Stages 🚸
- Project ,get familiar with cloud and understand the benefits of cloud.
- Foundation , build the foundation by creating a landing zone. An multi account aws environment (AWS Organizations, Control tower is your goto for AWS).
- Migration , this phase you migrate mission critical apps or ICT infrastructure to Cloud.
- Reinvention , focus on reinvention by taking the advantages of cloud computing.
MRA & CAF
MRA – migration readiness assessment
Conducted by AWS or partners to understand how ready you are to adopt the cloud technology. It will also help you to understand your capabilities.
CAF – Cloud Adoption framework
AWS CAF identifies specific organizational capabilities that underpin successful cloud transformations.AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations
Why should we do Migration readiness assessment ?
- Helps to understand potential pot holes and road blocks on your migration.
- Scoping the Migration readiness plan, understanding what need to be migrated and what not to be.
How to do an MRA ?
Conducted by AWS with AWS partner
- identify if you are qualified for MAP.
- schedule meeting & require attendance of stake holders.
- Use MRA as Guide.
- Analysis MRA results and Build Observations.
- Schedule and conduct out-brief with customer.
to be continued on What are the Strategies and Tools to Perform Large-Scale Migrations: Part II ………
