This document outlines a step-by-step plan to migrate a customer's Windows Server 2003 environment and .NET applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It discusses assessing requirements, planning the migration strategy, designing the new cloud architecture, deploying core infrastructure like Active Directory, and migrating applications. It also covers managing the new environment using tools like Cloudnexa's vNOC management suite and benefits of the migration like optimized resource utilization and usage-based costing.

1. A Step by Step Plan to Update and Migrate Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 to the Cloud for .NET Applications

2. Introducing
MJ DiBerardino
Chief Technology Officer
Cloudnexa
Paul Andrushkiw
Josh Hofmann
Cloud Architect
Cloudnexa
Principal Manager
Amazon Web Services

3. Webinar Overview
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4. What We’ll Cover
 Overview of Amazon Web Services
 How to upgrade your server infrastructure and migrate your critical
applications to the cloud, step by step.
 Insight into operations, management, and visibility for your new cloud
architecture using Cloudnexa’s vNOC Management Portal.
 Q&A

5. What is AWS?

6. AWS Global Infrastructure
9 Regions
25 Availability Zones
Continuous Expansion

7. Solving Problems for Organizations Around the World

8. “AWS is the overwhelming market share
leader, with more than five times
the compute capacity in use than
the aggregate total of the other fourteen
providers.”
Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service,” Lydia Leong, Douglas Toombs, Bob Gill, Gregor Petri, Tiny Haynes, August 19, 2013. This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part
of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report.. The Gartner report is available upon request from Steven Armstrong (asteven@amazon.com). Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's
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particular purpose.

9. How Enterprises Use AWS
Augment On-Premises
resources with cloud
capacity
Migrate existing apps &
data to the cloud
Build new apps, sites,
services & lines of
businesses

10. A Step by Step Plan to Update Windows Server 2003 and
Migrate to the Cloud for .NET Applications
March 5, 2014
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11. Background: A Common Scenario
Windows Server 2003 will reach its end-of-life by July 2015 and
customer wants to migrate/upgrade .NET applications to AWS:
– Migration Drivers (AWS)
 Cost savings
 Just-in-time infrastructure
 Efficient resource utilization
– Upgrade Drivers (Microsoft)
 Reduced attack service
 Simplified management & scalability
 Performance gains including overall footprint, memory management,
etc.
 New and updated features
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12. Engagement Framework
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13. Assess: Requirements Gathering & Analysis
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Identify and Define:
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Goals & critical success factors for migration
Hardware & software requirements
IIS application types and requirements
Security and monitoring objectives
Maintenance practices
Fault-tolerance, high availability & SLAs
Disaster recovery & business continuity planning
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14. Plan: Evaluate & Choose Migration Strategy
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Key Decision Points:
– AWS Account Structure & Billing
– Connectivity and Topology
 Isolated vs. Integrated
– Migration Approach
 Forklift, Greenfield, Cloud-Native, or Hybrid
– Component Decoupling
 Degree of accepted modification/refactoring to application
architecture
– Application Coexistence and Cutover
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15. Design: Architecture & Deployment Roadmap
 Summary architecture deliverable including:
– High availability
– Disaster recovery
– Technology gaps and third-party integrations
 Create deployment roadmap:
– Identify project phases and milestones
– Identify risks and mitigation steps
 Document current infrastructure and design decisions
– “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you
are not going to stay where you are.”
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16. Deploy: Core Infrastructure Build
Establish VPC network topology & appropriate site connectivity
Launch base infrastructure resources (Active Directory, antivirus, monitoring, patching, backup, operations management)
Configure Microsoft resources to support application
infrastructure
Integrate AWS & third-party services to support application
infrastructure
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17. Deploy: Core Infrastructure Build (HA/DR)
AWS
Route 53
Ireland
Eu-west-1
N. California
Us-west-1
N. Virginia
Us-east-1
Application Resources
VPC
Singapore
Ap-southeast-1
Application Resources
Application Resources
VPC
VPC
Application Resources
VPC
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18. Migrate: Application Environment
LEGEND
Internet Traffic
VPN Traffic
Internet
AWS
Customer’s
Route 53
DNS Provider
Source Network
Elastic Load Balancers
Proxy Tier
Web Tier
Web Tier
Elastic Load Balancers
Application Tier
Application Tier
Database Tier
Database Tier
Customer
Datacenter
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19. Migrate: Upgrade Considerations
 IIS 7 was a complete rewrite/redesign
– Modular architecture with hierarchical configuration system
– Integrated pipeline replaces ISAPI pipeline
 IIS 8 Key Enhancements
– Dynamic IP restrictions, SSL host header support, central
certificate store, CPU throttling, application initialization
module, WebSocket support, et.
 IIS 8 Classic Mode
– Full support for ISAPI pipeline; acceptable short-term solution
 Migration Services & Tools:
– IIS Migration Tool, AppZero
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20. Manage: Total Operating Environment
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AWS Ecosystem
Underlying virtual network environment
Core infrastructure and infrastructure supporting
services
Guest Operating System environment
Active Directory and Microsoft Stacks Workloads
Custom .NET applications
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21. Management, Operations, & Development Tools
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vNOC Management Suite
AWS Console
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
AWS Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Studio
AWS SDK for .NET
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22. Demo: vNOC Management Suite
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23. Benefits to Utilizing AWS + Cloudnexa
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Zero upfront infrastructure investment
Optimized resource utilization
Reduced time-to-market
Usage-based costing
Knowledge capital
Fastest Path to Cloud
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24. Questions
Contacts:
Cloudnexa:
www.cloudnexa.com
info@cloudnexa.com
AWS Contact:
aws.amazon.com/contact-us

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