A  PRACTICAL  APPROACH  TO  MIGRATING  INTERNAL  IT  APPS  TO  THE  AWS  CLOUD  Jerry  Hunter,  VP  Amazon  IT  

•  Now:  VP  of  Corporate  ApplicaHons  (1.75  yrs)  –  Includes:  All  Finance  and  HR  systems,  developer  tools,  knowledge  management,  SOX,  personal  producHvity(laptops,  phones,  email,  calendar,  printers,  etc)  

•  Before:    • VP  IT  OperaHons  at  SUNW  (1.5  yrs)  

• VP  IT  Infrastructure  design  SUNW(1  yr)  • Sr  Dir,  Java  Enterprise  System,  SUNW(2  yrs)  

MY  ROLE  AT  AMAZON  

•  Make  Amazon  more  producHve  –  Remove  waste  from  our  value  stream  

•  Improve  hardware  uHlizaHon  rates  –  Hold  just  the  capacity  needed  

•  Drive  so]ware  efficiency  –  Deliver  uHlity  bills  directly  applicaHon  owners  

•  Reduce  our  Total  Cost  of  Ownership  

MOTIVATING  FACTORS  

OUR  LEGACY  DEPLOYMENT  MODEL  

Internal Users Internal Applications Running on Internal Servers

Internal Network

OUR  AMAZON  VPC  DEPLOYMENT  MODEL  

We extend our internal network into the cloud, securely hosting internal applications on EC2 within a VPC.

Employees

•  Do  you  have  or  want  clear  visibility  into  your  infrastructure  usage  (network,  CPU,  memory,  storage)?    Can  you  predict  future  demand?  

•  Are  you  considering  infrastructure  expansion?  •  Are  you  building  new  applicaHons?  •  Does  maintaining  business  advantage  have  anything  to  do  with  Hme  to  market?  

•  Are  you  using  SOA  today?    Would  you  like  control  over  your  hardware  usage  from  within  your  so]ware?  

WHEN  IS  CLOUD  COMPUTING  A  FIT?    

•  Amazon  is  an  enterprise  customer  of  AWS  

•  Avoid  custom,  Amazon-­‐specific  soluHons  •  Meet  or  exceed  exisHng  metrics  for  availability,  latency,  etc.  

•  Earn  customer  trust  with  strict  adherence  to  enterprise  security  requirements  

•  Emphasize  frugality  

CORE  TENETS  OF  AMAZON  IT  MIGRATION  

•  Create  Program  Infrastructure  

•  System  Assessment  –  Data  ClassificaHon  –  Understand  our  Systems  Beeer  

–  ApplicaHon  CriHcality  (Availability,  SLAs)  –  Dependencies  –  Compliance  Requirements  

–  HW  Component  Usage  (Disk,  I/O,  Memory)  –  Current  TCO  

AMAZON  IT  PRE-­‐MIGRATION  CHECKLIST  

•  Move  your  encrypted  data  to  Amazon  S3  now  

•  Pilot  applicaHons  in  Amazon  EC2  –  Evaluate  latency  and  availability  –  Understand  operaHonal  procedures  (provisioning,  etc)  

•  Build  phased  migraHon  plan  •  Work  with  third-­‐party  vendors  for  AWS  cerHficaHon  and  licensing  

RECOMMENDED  IT  APPROACH  

CASE  STUDY  1:  BROADCAST.AMAZON.COM  

CASE  STUDY  1:  BROADCAST  (ARCHITECTURE)  

Users

Dynamically Scaled Video Rendering

Unlimited Video Storage

Web Front-End

MySql

Encryption

Rendering Job Manager

Amazon Internal Network

•  900 hrs of video encoded in 5 days (would have taken 112 days)

•  2 software engineers, 3 weeks

•  Videos  stream  within  a  Flash-­‐based  embedded  player  

•  AutomaHc  encoding  pipeline  to  re-­‐render  legacy  and  new  video  hosted  within  Amazon  EC2  –  Over  900  hours  of  video  re-­‐encoded  –  Ordinarily,  900  hours  *  3  hours  to  encode  per  video  =  112  days  –  With  Amazon  EC2,  we  were  able  to  parallelize  encoding  and  finish  

within  one  week  

•  Storing  and  serving  “unlimited”  video  using  Amazon  S3  •  Massive  producHvity  increase  

–  2  so]ware  engineers,  3  weeks,  1  applicaHon  –  Engineers  empowered  to  build  the  soluHon  on  their  own,  no  

requisiHon  process  involved  

BROADCAST,  THE  AWS  VERSION  

CASE  STUDY  2:  BMC  REMEDY  MID-­‐TIER  

Amazon EC2 instances hosting part of Remedy mid-tier server fleet spread across three data centers

Employees

DC1

DC2

DC3

Load Balancer

Amazon Internal Network

•  Mission  CriHcal  Apps  on  Amazon  EC2  –  BMC  Remedy  AR  System  on  AWS  

–  So]ware  deployment  system  integraHon  with  AWS  Auto  Scaling  –  ElasHc  build  fleet  

•  Business  CriHcal  Apps  on  Amazon  EC2  –  Test  environments  on-­‐demand  

•  Broadened  use  of  Amazon  S3  –  File  archiving  –  logs,  invoice  images,  reports,  etc  

–  Desktop  backups  –  Key  -­‐  blob  storage  

SOME  CURRENT  &  FUTURE  PROJECTS  

VENDOR  COLLABORATION  

eBusiness Suite

Remedy AR System

•  AdapHng  license  models  

•  Expanding  AWS  support  of  vendor  requirements  •  TesHng  performance  against  vendors’  benchmarks  

•  Scalability  –  Rapid,  on-­‐demand  elasHcity  versus  standard  old  process  for  adding  

new  servers  to  your  data  center  

•  Development  Lifecycle  –  Provisioning  development  capacity  in  minutes  versus  weeks  

–  Exposing  applicaHon  operaHng  costs  drives  greater  ownership  and  beeer  decision  making  by  so]ware  developers  

–  Empowering  engineers  to  innovate  by  removing  barriers  

•  Security  –  Data  centers  hardened  by  Amazon  experts  versus  spending  to  harden  

your  own  

–  Abstract  the  hardware  from  you  

EVALUATING  CLOUD  SUCCESS  

•  Consider  the  total  return  on  investment  –  Asset  uHlizaHon  –  Hardware  costs  –  Power  efficiency  –  Enabling  redundancy  –  Supply  chain  management  –  Personnel  resources  

EVALUATING  CLOUD  SUCCESS  

•  Assess  which  projects  are  a  fit  for  cloud  compuHng  

•  Pilot  a  single  applicaHon,  assign  a  great  developer  to  it,  cut  him/her  loose  

•  Evaluate  your  results  

•  Get  started  now!  –  aws.amazon.com  

CALL  TO  ACTION