AWS SF Summit 2015 migration sessions

Here are the AWS SF 2015 Summit decks and video replays:
1. AWS Cloud Transformation Framework:
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/application-portfolio-migration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FjCMWlskMU&index=11&list=PLhr1KZpdzukeD0iBeDI9WqZLYtuaFaaGc
The CAF white paper serves as the foundation for this session: http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_cloud_adoption_framework.pdf 

2. AWS application modernization with a focus on security:
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cloud-migration-application-modernization-and-security-for-partners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpeV4OqB6Us&index=26&list=PLhr1KZpdzukeD0iBeDI9WqZLYtuaFaaGc

3. AWS Partner session:
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/implementing-service-oriented-architecture

All sessions can be found on Slideshare and Youtube here:
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/tag/2015sfsummit?adbsc=awssummit2015_20150411_43646046&adbid=586959582653648896&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhr1KZpdzukeD0iBeDI9WqZLYtuaFaaGc&adbsc=awssummit2015_20150411_43648896&adbid=586713471154159616&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587

Data Center Migration to AWS

Learn how RISO Inc. used Apps Associates services to move their data center to the AWS cloud. In so doing, RISO Inc. avoided capital intensive hardware purchases and redeployed IT staff to projects that directly supported their business goals. We'll also describe how you can integrate your existing environment with the cloud to create a hybrid architecture.

http://youtu.be/jE1-8vjMGrw 

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-partner-webcast-33342744 

http://www.slideshare.net/tomlaszewski/data-center-migration-to-the-aws-cloud

Enterprise Migrations to AWS : reInvent replay

The session replay can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40tSWyyOWFI

The slides can be be viewed here:

http://www.slideshare.net/tomlaszewski/ent303-migrating-enterprise-applications-to-aws

Running Microsoft and Oracle Stacks on Elastic Block Store

This session is focused on using Elastic Block Storage (EBS) with Oracle Databases on AWS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9eUmhvgMwY

AWS Enable Your Consulting Business to Grow in the AWS Cloud in NYC

Great event in NYC that includes a focus on enterprise software and Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.

Amazon Web Services

Thursday, October 3, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)

New York, NY

Register for the event:
http://awssipartnereventny-awsemail1.eventbrite.com

AWS re:Invent enterprise sessions

DAT202 - Using Amazon RDS to Power Enterprise Applications Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it cheap and easy to deploy, manage, and scale relational databases using a familiar MySQL, Oracle or MS SQL server database engine. Amazon RDS can be an excellent choice for running many large, off-the-shelf enterprise applications from companies like JD Edwards, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Siebel. Sign up for this session to learn how to best leverage Amazon RDS for use with enterprise applications and learn about best practices and data migration strategies.

DAT401 - Advanced Data Migration Techniques for Amazon RDS Migrating data from the existing environments to AWS is a key part of the overall migration to Amazon RDS for most customers. Moving data into Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) from existing production systems in a reliable, synchronized manner with minimum downtime requires careful planning and the use appropriate tools and technologies. Because each migration scenario is different in terms of source and target systems, tools, and data sizes, you'll need to customize your data migration strategy to achieve the best outcome. In this session we will do a deep dive into various methods, tools and technologies that can be put to use for a successful and timely data migration to Amazon RDS.

STG301 - AWS Storage Tiers for Enterprise Workloads - Best Practices Enterprise environments utilize many different kinds of storage technologies from different vendors to fulfill various needs in their IT landscape. These are often very expensive and procurement cycles quite lengthy. They also need specialized expertise in each vendor's storage technologies to configure them and integrate them into the ecosystem, again resulting in prolonged project cycles and added cost. AWS provides end-to-end storage solutions that will fulfill all these needs of Enterprise Environments that are easily manageable, extremely cost effective, fully integrated and totally on demand. These storage technologies include Elastic Block Store (EBS) for instance attached block storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object (file) storage and Amazon Glacier for archival. An enterprise database environment is an excellent example of a system that could use all these storage technologies to implement an end-to-end solution using striped PIOPS volumes for data files, Standard EBS volumes for log files, S3 for database backup using Oracle Secure Backup and Glacier for long-time archival from S3 based on time lapse rules. In this session, we will explore the best practices for utilizing AWS storage tiers for enterprise workloads

STG305 - Disaster Recovery Site on AWS - Minimal Cost Maximum Efficiency Implementation of  disaster recovery (DR) site is crucial for business continuity of any enterprise. Due to the fundamental nature of features like elasticity, scalability and geographic distribution, DR implementation on AWS can be done at 10-50% of the conventional cost. In this session, we will do a deep dive into proven DR architectures on AWS and best practices, tools and techniques get the most out of them.

STG303 - Running Microsoft and Oracle Stacks on Elastic Block Store Run your Enterprise applications on Elastic Block Store (EBS). This session will discuss how you can leverage the block storage platform (EBS) as you move your Microsoft (SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint) and Oracle (Databases, E-business Suite, Business Intelligence) workloads onto Amazon Web Services (AWS). The session will cover high availability, performance, and backup/restore best practices

ENT303 - Migrating Enterprise Applications to AWS - Best Practices, Tools and Techniques In this session we will discuss strategies, tools and techniques for migrating enterprise software systems to AWS. We'll consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards 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. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits. We'll identify success factors and best practices.

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.

AWS SSO integration with AWS

This is a question that comes up quite often, "How can I delegate authentication into my on premise MS AD for AWS users?"  This product has just been released.

SSO integration with AWS

http://www.okta.com/aws/

They were also showcased in Andy’s keynote on Tuesday at the SF AWS Summit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWL0_Xdntzo#t=50m52s  

The other option is to use AWS STS: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/UsingSTS/Welcome.html

Microsoft Active Directory with AWS

Microsoft Active Directory (or any compliant LDAP Server) can be used for application level authorization and authentication. 
There are three options you can use for this:
1. Run Microsoft Active Directory on AWS/EC2.  This option means that if you are running Active Directory in your on-premise location you will be running a separate MS Active Directory instance.
2. All authentication and authorization is handled by Microsoft AD on premise.  This means all calls to MS AD will have to go over the internet or a AWS DirectConnect connection. Be aware you will take a performance hit here.

3. Set up MS AD on AWS/EC2 and sync it with you on-premise MS AD installation. The syncing can be done using Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) technology.  More information can be found here:   http://media.amazonwebservices.com/EC2_ADFS_howto_2.0.pdf.

When using an on-premise MS AD or using MS Active Directory Federation Services, you will need to set up to secure connection using AWS VPC.