1. Cloud for Development and Test
Environments
Stuart Lynn
Chief Technology & Information Officer, Sage UKI

2. The 3rd largest ERP provider worldwide
6,000,000+
customers
13,000+
employees
26,500+
business partners
40,000+
accountant partners worldwide
38,000+
daily customer interactions
Source: Gartner, ERP Software Market
Share Top 10. Published March 2013.
Introducing Sage

3. Our AWS Journey
What's this
all about
then?
Early Investigation
Adhoc Usage
Skunk Works
Wider Adoption
Extended Use Cases
Cultivated Innovation
Production Systems
Process Automation
Business Critical
This could
be
interesting
Now we’re
getting
serious
Development
Confidence
Test UAT Production
Pre-
Production

4. Development and Test Benefits
• No lead time on provisioning new machines.
• Simple to spin up new servers as needed and drop them when not
required.
• Easy to create multiple environments to run isolated versions of the
same application.
• Straightforward to integrate deployment to AWS within Team Build.

5. UAT Service Process
Continuous
Integration Server
Build
Code
Amazon S3 Storage
QA Team
Request code choice
Rightscale
Boots Amazon Instance
with code choice
Register
DNS
Records
Update UI with
URL to application

6. UAT Benefits
• The QA team are empowered to test what they want when they
want.
• If we get more QA staff testing concurrently there’s no impact on
service management for the infrastructure, we just start more
instances.
• ‘From Scratch’ provisioning for databases means each QA run is a
‘clean sheet’.
• 5 minute build time from new code being available to being able to
login to the provisioned application.

7. Final Takeaways
• Anyone creating some custom code, a bright idea, or a new planned
feature – can check out their code and provision it to a working
environment in minutes…
• The UAT boxes, will auto-destroy themselves after 12 hours to keep
the administration simple and costs sensible, or they can be
manually extended by 6 hours with a single click. The boxes can
also be manually destroyed if the code is no good, but this rarely
happens 

8. Cloud for Development and Test
Environments
Stuart Lynn
Chief Technology & Information Officer, Sage UKI