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Vom PoC zur IT-TransformationCloud Adoption in der Praxis

Constantin Gonzalez

Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services Deutschland

Changes in IT

Mainframes Client/Server Virtualization Cloud Computing

Technology adoption goes in stages

Experimentation Limited Use Wide-spread Use Corporate Standard

Remember Virtualization?

Development & Test Production Mission Critical All-in

And now it’s happening with the Cloud

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Before You Start …

Traditional IT

Goal: Reliability

Value: Price/Performance

Approach: Waterfall

Governance: Plan-driven approvals

Sourcing: Enterprise suppliers,long-term deals

Talent for: Processes, projects

Culture: IT-centric, removedfrom customer

Cycle-times: Long (months)

Picture: Wikimedia Commons

“New Style” of IT

Goal: Agility

Value: Revenue, brand,customer experience

Approach: Agile, Kanban,low-ceremony

Governance: Empirical, continuous

Sourcing: Small, new vendors,short-term deals

Talent for: New and uncertainprojects

Culture: Business-centric, close tocustomer

Cycle-times: Short (days, weeks)

Picture: Wikimedia Commons

Deployments at amazon.com

11.6s

Mean time

between

deployments

(weekday)

1,079

Max number of

deployments in a

single hour

10,000

Mean number of

hosts

simultaneously

receiving a

deployment

30,000

Max number of

hosts

simultaneously

receiving a

deployment

Both Modes are Useful

Reliability Goal Agility

Price for performance Value Revenue, brand,

customer experience

Waterfall Approach Agile, Kanban,

low-ceremony

Plan-driven approvals Governance Empirical, continuous

Enterprise-suppliers,

long-term deals

Sourcing Small, new vendors,

short-term deals

Processes, projects Talent for New and uncertain

projects

IT-centric, removed from

customer

Culture Business-centric, close

to customer

Long (months) Cycle Times Short (days, weeks)

Mode 1 Mode 2

… but they don’t mix well!

Stage 0: Identify/Build your Teams

• Which mode(s) do you want to use Cloud in?– Mode 1, mode 2 or both?

• Who’s you Chief Digital Officer?

• Startup-within-the-enterprise

• Autonomy

• Executive support

• Cloud center of excellence

Cloud Adoption Stages

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Stage 1: Development & Test

Goals:• Learn

• Experiment

• EvaluateEU-Central-1a

The cloud increases IT agility and efficiency

“AWS brings business agility as Shell is able

to deploy services much more quickly.”

– Johan Krebbers, Vice President of Architecture, Shell

Runs up to 1,500 dev

& test servers daily

Reduced deployment

time from weeks to days

Shortened testing from

six weeks to two days

Dev/Test Checklist

• Software/Web Departments

• Pilots, PoCs

• Trainings/Workshops

• Security/Compliance

• Enterprise Agreement

aws.amazon.com/whitepapers

Stage 2: True Production Apps

Goals:• Operational Experience

• Find Best Practices

• Establish Success

Build & deploy for the cloud

Mobile

apps

Scientific

computing

Public or

private web

apps

Big Data, Analytics

Internet of Things

Lamborghini moved their website to the cloud

Less than one week for dev & test

online in less than one month

Seamlessly handled a 250% increase in visitors

“Today our time-to-market is

close to zero.”

–Roberto Ciacci, Digital Marketing Manager

Vodafone built a mobile payment app

„Amazon Web Services was

the clear choice in terms of

security.“

– Stefano Harak,

Online Senior Product Manager

PCI and DSS compliance was essential

Launched in 3 months

Reduced CapEx by 30%

Deployed to 7 channels, including Facebook

Payments

Production Checklist

• Security/Compliance

• Enterprise Agreement

• Identify Use-Cases

• Define Architecture

• Partners/PS

• Business Support

• DevOps or ITIL?

aws.amazon.com/whitepapers

Stage 3: Mission Critical Apps

Goals:• Leverage the Cloud

• Mature Processes

• IT Transformation

Mission-Critical Apps: Migrate existing apps

Lower costs

Higher availability

Easier and faster hardware upgrades

Less downtime for software upgrades

Easier global deployment

Up to 70% less*

Multiple availability zones

Instant access to new hardware

Old and new environments in parallel

Mirror globally

Data centerOracle, SAP, Microsoft

Cloud-based desktops

Parallel data processing

Dole runs Microsoft SharePoint in AWS

“AWS really helps us increase operational

efficiency and so far, saved us at least

$350,000.”

– Chris Romes, Sr. Director of Engineering

Substantial increase in efficiency and reliability

SharePoint instances can be added in minutes

Supports globally distributed BI and mobile applications

Adobe deploys worldwide with AWS

Mission Critical Checklist

• IT Governance

• IT Processes

• IT Transformation

• Hybrid Integration

• Partners

• Enterprise Support

aws.amazon.com/whitepapers

Stage 4: All in

Goals:• Fully Optimize Cost

• Maximize Agility

• Become Future-Proof

Kempinski Hotels reduced IT overhead with AWS

Wanted to keep IT focused on business

Reduced costs by 40% over five years

Moved 140 virtualized servers

“We can now really focus on the

business, rather than administration.”

– Jeremy Ward, Senior Vice President of IT

For a company that’s more interested in getting

its journalism out; the time, money, and people

we need to spend operating on-premises IT

distracts us from our core mission.

Stephen Orban, CTO

News Corp made the journey into the cloud

True

Production

Share development

globally, in minutes

Dev & Test

APIs integrated

legacy technology

Mission

Critical

Dozens of mobile apps

Back office apps

All-in

3,000 apps by Jan 2015

AWS will contribute toward a global savings

of $100M in our infrastructure costs.Stephen Orban

CTO

How is your journey going to be?

Development &

Test

Production Mission Critical All-in

aws.amazon.com/professional-services

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