Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS

Here is a link a webinar this week:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/196693106

n this session, we will discuss strategies, tools, and techniques for migrating and running off-the-shelf Oracle  packages on AWS. We'll consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Endeca, and Siebel. These applications are complex by themselves, they are frequently customized, they have many touch points on other systems in the enterprise, and they often have large associated databases. Therefore, they may not seem good candidates for the cloud at first look. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits, and we'll identify the factors and best practices that most influence success. 

Migrating enterprise applications to AWS

There are many infrastructure artifacts that need to be addressed when migrating enterprise workloads to AWS: compute, storage, database, security, load balancers, firewalls, data encryption, management, monitoring, patching, anti-virus, and intrusion detection to name a few.  There are also development artifacts that need to be addressed: packaging, testing, deployment, versioning, and upgrades to name a few. These on premise constructs need to the mapped to the same, equivalent, or new constructs on AWS.  

There are also a number of migration approaches that can be employed: lift and shift, leverage and extend, or re-engineering.  The approach taken depends upon the application attributes - Oracle and SAP Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), Microsoft and other 3RD party packaged applications, or custom systems.   There are strength and weaknesses of each approach.

AWS offerings services that are not readily accessible in your on premise environment.  There are services, including CloudFront and Auto Scaling, that can be used to increase performance and reduce cost without changing a line of application code.

In future blogs, I will began to identify and address the mappings, approaches, and services that can be used to migrate enterprise workloads to AWS.