Introduction to Cloud Migration

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Amar Suchak

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Migrating to the cloud

  • Moving your organizations data, applications, and workloads to the cloud
  • Benefits:
    • Significant cost savings
    • Increased flexibility
    • Improved scalability
  • AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
    • Structured approach to help organizations design and implement a migration strategy

Moving boxes

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The six perspectives

The six perspectives of AWS CAF: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations

1 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/foundational-capabilities.html
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Benefits of the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

  • Reducing Risk: ex. backing up data and defining transfer protocols

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Benefits of the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

  • Improving ESG Performance: Goal is to implement sustainable cloud solutions.
  • Optimize usage, reduce waste, lower energy consumption

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Benefits of the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

  • Increasing Revenue and Operational Efficiency: Automate migration operations leading to greater operational efficiency

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Common migration strategies

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

  • Replicating existing databases with minimal disruption
  • Fully operational during transition

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AWS Snowball

  • Physical data transport for large-scale migrations
  • For moving data quickly and securely
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Let's practice!

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