Migrating to the cloud provides an opportunity to reinvent your organization's operations and the management of your IT landscape. In this session, we discuss how to evaluate your organizational readiness for the cloud and how to develop foundational capabilities before the migration. We also review key considerations developed by AWS Professional Services to help organizations prepare for a migration at scale through the Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and Migration Readiness and Planning (MRP) programs.

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AWS re:INVENT
How to Assess Your Organization’s
Readiness to Migrate at Scale to AWS
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Agenda
• Common migration drivers
• Migration readiness
• Executive sponsorship
• Business case
• People
• Foundational experience
• Operating models
• Visibility
• Put it all into action

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Common migration drivers
Data-center
consolidation
Digital transformation
Cost reduction
Acquisitions
or divestitures
Large-scale compute-
intensive workloads
Facility or real-estate decisions
Colocation or outsourcing
contract changes
Agility/Dev
productivity
Operational evolution

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Migration readiness
Executive sponsorship Business case
Foundational experience Visibility
People
Operating model

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Executive sponsorship
• Formulate and evangelize strategy
• Layout communication plan
• Support communication channels
• Create new roles and learning paths
• Realign priorities and allocate resources (internal/external)

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Executive sponsorship
• Create a framework for measuring success
• Form strong coalition of leaders across the organization
• Reinforce commitment and reward early wins
Commit, build, and maintain momentum!

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Business case

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Business case
Stakeholder High-level
Data Entry
Directional
Business Case
Refine Data Entry
.
.
Refine
Data Entry
Infrastructure
Team
Applications
Team
Directional Refined Detailed

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People
Training
to build technical
skills and learn best
practices online or
with an accredited
instructor
Self-paced online
labs
to learn AWS
services and practice
skills at low cost
AWS certification
to validate
knowledge with
an industry-
recognized
credential
AWS Professional
Services Workshops
AWS Solution Architects
Immersion Days

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People
• Create Center of Excellence organization chart and charter
• Define RACI matrix for initial migration waves from discovery to
operations
• Skills assessment
• New internal job descriptions

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Foundational experience

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Foundational experience

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Operating models
• What are your operating models and how will you address
changes in a hybrid mode?
• What are the main tools and processes employed today?
• What operational capabilities do you need to ramp up that align
to the vision?

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Operating models
Traditional
Automated
Efficiency
DevOps
Dev Dev DevOps Ops Ops
Apps
Infra
Dev
Teams/COTS
Cloud
Engineering
Managed
Hosting
Cloud
Engineering
DevOps DevOps
It is not a one-size-fits-all approach

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Visibility
OS,
Platforms
Inter-
Application
Dependencies
Application Performance
characteristics and
Architecture
Shared
Services
Database
engines
Application
Development
Roadmap
Licensing
Contracts,
Ts&Cs
Mission
criticality
Support,
Operational
Model

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Migration—6 'R's
Retain
RepurchaseRehost
RefactorRetire
Replatform
• Customers will keep host/application in
their source environment
• Minimal analysis/validation of scope and
application affinity
• Dependency on integrating service
management
• Application and host decommission on
source
• No migration to target
• Application owner approvals needed
• Like-for-like application migration to target
cloud
• Minimal effort to make the application work
on the target cloud infrastructure (minimal
application layout change)
• Storage migration will be needed (without
conversion)
• Up-version of the OS and/or database onto
the target cloud
• Some level of application changes
• Application reinstallation on the target
• Database to Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora
• OS and/or database porting
• Middleware and application change to cloud
service offering
• Data conversion; database transition to
different engine
• Use SaaS-based offerings, application
architecture changes may require porting
• Middleware, data modernization; application
consolidation/stacking

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Migration decision tree (example)
Cost Reduction / Avoidance
(i.e. License Renewal, Hardware
Refresh, Operational Efficiencies)
Risk Reduction
(i.e. Regulatory Requirements, End
of Life H/W, Unsupported
Application, Audit Compliance)
Business Transformation
(i.e. Business Expansion, Merger &
Acquisition, Increased Innovation &
Agility, Reduced Time to Market)
Cloud Readiness Quick Assessment
Typical customer
migration drivers
Security, Risk &
Compliance
Assessment
Technical
Complexity
Scorecard
Application
Architecture
Assessment
Business
Complexity
Scorecard
Size of
Available
Investment?
Time Available
to Migrate?
<6 months
Is Application @
End-of-Life?
>6 months Fixed Deadline
For Delivery?
Cloud readiness
quick
assessment
Key
determinants
Migration Candidates
Treatment
types
Yes
No
Small Yes
Large No
No

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Put it all into action

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/

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AWS migration readiness assessment

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AWS migration readiness assessment
Visibility
Procure and POC discovery
tool and run multiple
iterations for better visibility

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AWS migration readiness assessment
People
Outline architectural
standard and policies to live
by in AWS
Send team members to
AWS training
Building a Cloud Team and
Defining an Operating
Model—Workshop

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AWS migration readiness assessment
Security
Conduct security workshops to learn
options and create a plan to tackle
security requirements and build a
security playbook

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How do we tackle these areas in a
systematic approach?

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Migration readiness and planning outcomes
Skills/Center
of Excellence
Security and
compliance
Landing zone
Discovery and
planning
Migration
experience
Operating model
Migration
business case
Migration plan

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AWS migration partners

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Business case
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Discovery
And Planning
App
Dependency
Mapping
Workload and Data
migration
Validation
AWS SMS
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Discovery Service AWS Application
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Migration
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Service
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Migration
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Service
Inventory

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Migration customers

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