IT Extreme Makeover with Hybrid Scenarios

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IT Extreme Makeover with

Hybrid ScenariosChris Munns, AWS Solutions Architect

March 26, 2014

Y-Hack 2013

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Who Are You?

Chris Munns - @chrismunns

– Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect

– New Yorker

– Formerly Senior Operations @Etsy & @Meetup

– Little time at a Hedgefund and Xerox

– Rochester Institute of Technology: Applied Networking and

Systems Administration ‘05

– Internet Geek

Who Are You?

• This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS Cloud to augment their current IT capabilities.

• If you need more data points on “What is Cloud?” or “Value of Cloud in your Operations” this session is not for you.

• This session targets IT decision makers who are tasked with solving cloud transition obstacles.

Today our customers:(Typically)

Understand the value of

Amazon Web Services

Know that they will be

transitioning more to cloud

sometime in the near future

Know they can revolutionize the

way they manage information

technology

This is

Today our customers:(Typically)

Have physical datacenter

resources

Have legacy applications

that are under maintained

Have siloed teams and

complicated processes

Have strict business

requirements on IT

This is

Reality

• Your datacenters aren’t going away overnight

• Your staff will need some leveling up/re-tooling

• Your applications and infrastructure will need a

go through

• “the show must go on”

Painting the picture of

a customer in transition

Meet MaybeU Corp

25+ year old business

500 - 10,000 employees

Technology isn’t their business, but it enables it

Post-2008, budgets are

Legacy products and business pay

the bills today

Meet MaybeU Corp’s Technology

Technology boom in

the late 90s, early

Lots of big metal

that hasn’t been

rethought in a while

2+ Physical

datacenters

Legacy operating

systems, languages,

databases

Lots of client-server

model apps

About 50%

virtualized

Meet MaybeU Corp’s Technology Staff

Siloed around

business unit or

core function

Tenured

Protective of

territory

Dated technology

practices

Change averse

CTO/CIO/CFO are

not aligned on

priorities

Meet MaybeU Corp’s Future Goals

Embrace web &

mobile apps

Get out of the

datacenter business

Understand what

Big Data means to

Improve DR

capabilities

Streamline IT

Explore new

business

opportunities

MaybeU Corp is like a

lot of our customers(see previous slides)

here there???

What MaybeU Corp might need is

a bit of an “IT Extreme Makeover”

with a “Hybrid” infrastructure

What MaybeU Corp might need is

a bit of an “IT Extreme Makeover”

with a “Hybrid” infrastructure

Infrastructure Mullet

Cloud Datacenter

Integrating AWS with Your Existing On-Premises

Infrastructure

Active Directory

Network Configuration

Encryption

Back-up Appliances

Your On-Premise

Corporate Data

Centers

Integrating AWS with Your Existing On-Premises

Infrastructure

Active Directory

Network Configuration

Encryption

Back-up Appliances

Users & Access Rules

Your Private Network

HSM Appliance

Cloud back-ups

AWS Direct Connect

Your On-Premise

Your Cloud AppsCorporate Data

Centers

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Mix and Match – Web Layer on AWS

AWS region

Private

Connection

Your Data Center

Internet

Database

Mix and Match – Web Layer on Premise

AWS region

Private

Connection

Your Data Center

Internet

Mix and Match – Distributed

AWS region

Private

Connection

Your Data Center

Internet

Disaster Recovery Pilot Light

Server

Application

Server

Data Volume

EC2 Web

Server

Application

Server

EC2 DB

Server

EBS Data

Volume

Data Mirroring/

Replication

Amazon Elastic

Compute Cloud

(EC2) instances are

stopped and AMIs

are created.

Instances can be

restarted if primary

application goes

Smaller EC2 Instance for

DB but may be stopped

and restarted as a larger

EC2 instance.

Route 53

Corporate Data Center

Repoint DNS in an

Outage

Where do we start?

Tour the House

• What is the current state of MaybeU’s IT

technology?

• What is the current state of MaybeU’s IT staff?

• What tools does the staff use to manage the

infrastructure?

• What processes are in place to use those tools?

MaybeU’s IT Tech evaluation

• Operating systems

• Databases

• Home built applications

• 3rd Party applications

• Languages supported

MaybeU’s IT Staff evaluation

• Understand how a move to cloud can help the

business?

• Is there a skills gap?

• Hungry to learn?

• Energy to learn?

• Desire for developers to use cloud services?

MaybeU’s IT Tools evaluation

• 3rd Party vs. Home grown?

• Flexibility in multi-site abilities?

• Cost?

• Licensing?

• Cloud-friendly capabilities in recent versions?

• Existing tool sprawl?

MaybeU’s IT Process evaluation

• Process documentation

• Manual vs. Automated?

• Specific to vendor equipment/software?

• Auditable?

• Accountable?

Blueprint

• Make a matrix of fully supported, semi supported,

and unsupported OSes, databases and applications

• Figure out what could move and what must stay(for

• Enable developers to begin writing code against

AWS services

• Identify PoC’s and low hanging fruit with value at

both business and operational levels

AWS supports a wide range of technologies

Blueprint

• Begin training those who will lead the charge

• Review what operational processes might need

to change

• Identify tools that can increase operational

agility

• Encourage use of the AWS Free Tier

• Make use of the Test Drive Program

Test Drive Major Workloads at No Cost

Ready to use preconfigured test workloads for fast PoC:

SAP Microsoft Oracle Red Hat Many

others

AWS Marketplace & Partners Can Help

• Customer can find, research,

buy software

• Simple pricing, aligns with

EC2 usage model

• Launch in minutes

• Marketplace billing integrated

into your AWS account

• 1300+ products across 20+