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Allen Brown, Solutions Architect, AWS

December 1, 2016

Selecting Migration Partners

ENT310

What to Expect from the Session

• Questions to ask yourself

• Understanding of the ecosystem

• Questions to ask your partners

• Some patterns to model your migration on

Migrations come in many shapes and sizes, so do

partners.

Managed Service Providers

Cloud Native Specialists

Software Vendors

Large Scale Consultancies

Transformation Specialists

You’re looking for a partner compatible with you.

You need to understand your business before you

can pick a partner; there are plenty of skilled

partners who can get the job done.

You want to find compatibility with your objectives

and business first.

Checklist of things to know about your business

before you talk to any partners

Know what you are trying to achieve.

Do you have existing partners with the AWS skills you need to meet

your objectives?

What are your values relevant to picking a partner?

What are your internal AWS resources and experience?

What are you trying to achieve? What is most

important to you?

Cost SavingTime to

MarketAgility

Adopt New

Technology

What is most important to you

today vs tomorrow?

Today Tomorrow

What are your preferences?

› Do you prefer “invented here”?

› Does your business prefer outsourcing?

› Do you prefer learning what you don’t know, then do it

yourself?

› How involved do you want to be with post-migration

operations?

› Do you want to retire technical debt as you move, or is

that a future state?

What are your internal AWS resources and

experience?

› Do you have a large enough group of training and

certified AWS resources?

› Have you had any experience moving applications to

AWS?

› Have you established a COE that the rest of your

business can utilize to move their migrations forward?

Do you have existing partners with the AWS skills

you need to meet your objectives?

› Are your current partners experienced AWS

practitioners?

› Do they have customer references on AWS?

› Are they part of the AWS APN and hold the AWS

migration competency?

› Do you have a track record of success with your existing

partners?

Now that you know who you are, what are your choices for your migration?

What are your options?

Teach MeDIY Do It for Me

Why would you want to DIY?

• We know what’s best

• Focus on re-architecture

• Want to push to No-Ops

DIY

Should I DIY?

Benefits

• Deep knowledge of the outputs

• Maximum benefit from AWS innovation and

abstraction

• Optimize operations as you migrate

Things to think about

• Commitment

DIY

What do I need in place before I can DIY?

• Experience

• Cloud COE

• AWS training and certified Software

Engineers

DIY

What partners?

ISVs recommended by the AWS Migration

Competency will provide the tools you’ll need

for :

• Discovery and planning

• Business case development

• Workload mobility

• Data mobility

• APM

DIY

Previously, Under Armour struggled to manage the rapid

growth of its Connected Fitness platform when its IT resided

in two external data centers. Looking for an alternative, the

company selected AWS for better performance, scalability,

and availability during peak periods, including weekends, New

Year’s Day, and summer months when users tend to use the

Connected Fitness app the most.

During re:Invent 2015, mlbam demonstrated their

stats cast technology built on AWS, which was a

combination of new and existing technology built on

AWS with the demand for operational excellence

and availability.

Why would I want someone else to teach me?

• Control

AND/OR

• DevOpsTeach Me

Should I ask someone to come teach me?

Benefits

• Gain DevOps mechanisms in your

development and operations

• Safety net if things go wrong

• Expertise on tap

Things to think about

• Commitment

Teach Me

What do I need in place before I ask someone

to come teach me?

• We understand our motivation

• Early Cloud COE

• Ready to commit people

Teach Me

What partners?

Consulting partners recommended by the

AWS Migration competency are specialists in:

• Transformation for DevOps

• Building platforms

• Teaching while doing

Teach Me

In the intensely competitive mobile gaming sphere,

staying ahead isn’t just about developing the latest and

greatest game—it’s about getting to market first and

keeping a grip on consumers’ imaginations. Working with

Pythian, TinyCo’s new infrastructure delivers more

capacity, better scalability and improved performance.

Flux 7 an AWS Migration Consulting partner helped

Rent-A-Center migrate much of their application stacks

to AWS, using a platform built to leverage containers for

maximum flexibility, agility, performance, and scalability

in the face of varying demand.

When do you want someone to do it for you?

• Relatively new to AWS

• Committed

• Want to move quickly and OK with lift and

shift

Do It for Me

Why would you want someone to do it for you?

Benefits

• Move quickly to get out of your DCs fast

• Big bang migrations

• All the people you need

Things to think about

• You still need domain experts

Do It for Me

How should I prepare?

• Domain experts who know your business

• Stakeholder buy in

• Commitment from stakeholder

Do It for Me

Leveraging an alliance of AWS Migration Delivery partners

and AWS MSP partners, CapOne intend to shut down 5

major data centers by 2018.

Leveraging AWS Delivery and Consulting partners, GE is

on the journey to migrate thousands of applications to AWS

with a view to over time evolve each of those workloads to

DevOps and NoOps.

Want to learn more about our partners?

https://aws.amazon.com/migration/partner-solutions/

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