Partner Solutions: Rackspace - Rethinking Your Migration Strategy to Maximize Your Competitive Advantage

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Gene Tang, Senior Solutions Architect, Rackspace Asia

Rethinking Your Migration Strategy to Maximize Your Competitive

Advantage

Rethinking Your Migration Strategy to MAXIMIZE YOUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

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AGENDA

Who is Rackspace?

Motivation

3-Step Migration Lifecycle

Use Cases

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ABOUT ME

Gene Tang Senior Solutions Architect

5-Year Racker

IT Professional for 12+ years

Cloud Architect + Big Data Architect

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Managed Platforms

Managed Security

Managed DevOps

Managed Platforms

Managed Security

Managed DevOps

Managed Platforms

Managed Security

Managed DevOps

Migrating to AWS

Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Migrating to AWS

Re-Architect Forklift

Transformation Effort

Forklift

Re-Architect Cloud

Advantages

Re-Architect Forklift

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Phase 1

ACT

Phase 2

ENHANCE

Phase 3

PIONEER

MIGRATION LIFECYCLE

Phase 1

ACT

Phase 2

ENHANCE

Phase 3

PIONEER

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Reduced Costs

ACT

Enterprise Hardware

Global Footprint Refocused Skills

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ACT

Forklift

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ACT

Forklift

EC2 VPC

Elastic Load Balancing CloudFront

Base Services

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EC2 VPC

Elastic Load Balancing CloudFront

Base Services

Forklift

ACT

Supporting Services

Import/ Export

Snowball

Storage Gateway Direct

Connect

Database Migration Service

Phase 1

ACT

Phase 2

ENHANCE

Phase 3

PIONEER

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MANAGED SERVICES

Managed Services

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ENHANCE

Improved Scalability

Increased Agility

Reduced Time-to-Market

Reduced Costs

Improved Availability

Improved Security

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ENHANCE

Re-Architect “Re-Platform”

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Base Services

S3

RDS

Elasticsearch Service

EMR

SES Directory Service

Re-Architect “Re-Platform”

ENHANCE

Elastic Beanstalk

ElastiCache

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ENHANCE

Re-Architect “Re-Platform”

Supporting Services

CloudTrail AWS Config

Auto-Scaling

Inspector

IAM

Trusted Advisor

CloudWatch

Base Services

S3

RDS

Elasticsearch Service

EMR

SES Directory Service

Elastic Beanstalk

ElastiCache

Phase 1

ACT

Phase 2

ENHANCE

Phase 3

PIONEER

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PIONEER

Advantages at their

EXTREME

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PIONEER

Sustainable Competitive Advantage

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PIONEER

Re-Architect “Refactor”

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PIONEER

http://aws.amazon.com/architecture

Stateless Applications

Loose coupling

Automated Infrastructure

Micro- Services

Disposable Infrastructure

Utilise Caching

Database Choice

Remove Single-Points-of-Failure

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Base Services

Re-Architect “Refactor”

ECS Lambda

DynamoDB SQS

Kinesis

SNS

API Gateway

PIONEER

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PIONEER

Supporting Services

OpsWorks

Cognito Mobile Analytics

SWF

CloudFormation

Code Commit

Code Deploy

Code Pipeline

Re-Architect “Refactor”

Base Services

ECS Lambda

DynamoDB SQS

Kinesis

SNS

API Gateway

Phase 1

ACT

Phase 2

ENHANCE

Phase 3

PIONEER

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EXAMPLE

EC2 RDS MySQL

ElastiCache Memcache

RDS MySQL

ElastiCache Redis

SQS

Phase 1 ACT

Phase 2 ENHANCE

Phase 3 PIONEER

CloudFront CloudFormation

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

Cloud Application Design Principles:

https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices.pdf

Migration Assessments http://bit.ly/MigrateAWS

Thank you!