AWS re:Invent Recap 2018

1. © Exact Group B.V., 2018. All rights belong to their respective owners.
HOW TO MIGRATE EXACT ONLINE TO
AWS
Vincent Lesierse, December 13th 2018, AWS re:invent Recap 2018

2. © 2018 EXACT
Context
2
Dutch
based
company
Founded in 1984
by Dutch students
LAUNCHED
Exact Online,
a SaaS-based
version of
the product
2005
400,000+
companies
8
countries
Managed
Hosting
Summer 2018
40+ TB
SQL Server 2014
Blob Data

3. © 2018 EXACT
Business Case
3
Driving
Innovation
Improve
Scalability
Cost
Optimization
Mitigate
Brexit
Adopt services for IOT, Big Data, AI & Machine Learning,
serverless
Fast delivery and auto scaling possibilities
Pay what you use
Ensure business continuity after March 29, 2019

4. © 2018 EXACT
Proof of Concept
Feasibility study
Cloud selection
Winter 2017
Timeline

5. LEVERAGE
YOUR
CURRENT
LOAD TESTS

6. © 2018 EXACT
Proof of Concept
Feasibility study
Cloud selection Exact Online
Germany
Winter 2018
Winter 2017
Timeline

7. BE MINDFUL
OF SCOPE
CREEP AND
FOCUS ON
YOUR GOAL.

8. © 2018 EXACT
Proof of Concept
Feasibility study
Cloud selection Exact Online
Germany
Winter 2018
Winter 2017
Supporting Services
Spring 2018
Timeline
Splunk, XL Deploy,
Exact Identity Service,
App Center

9. BUILD UP
KNOWLEDGE
WITHIN THE
TEAM WITH
SMALLER
LESS
BUSINESS
CRITICAL
MIGRATIONS

10. © 2018 EXACT
Proof of Concept
Feasibility study
Cloud selection Exact Online
Germany
Winter 2018
Winter 2017
Supporting Services
Spring 2018
Exact Online
Rest of the world
Summer 2018
Complete
Migration
Timeline
Splunk, XL Deploy,
Exact Identity Service,
App Center

11. © 2018 EXACT
Before Migration
11
This is a simplified representation of the infrastructure
prior to the migration event.
AWS provides a stable connection between
Rackspace London and AWS Ireland region
AWS Direct Connect
SQL Server Mirroring
Akamai
All data changes in Rackspace data center is
replicated with the SQL Server Cluster in AWS
All production traffic is routed towards the
Rackspace data center and test traffic to AWS

12. © 2018 EXACT
After Migration
12
This is a simplified representation of the infrastructure
after to the migration event.
AWS provides a stable connection between
Rackspace London and AWS Ireland region
AWS Direct Connect
SQL Server Mirroring
Akamai
All data changes in AWS is replicated with the SQL
Server Cluster in Rackspace as fallback
All production traffic is routed towards AWS and a
fallback mechanism back to Rackspace

13. THINK ABOUT
YOUR
BACKGROUND
PROCESSES
AHEAD OF THE
MIGRATION
EVENT.

14. © 2018 EXACT
Next Steps
14
0
Data Lake Event Messaging
Inbound Mail Robotic Accounting
AWS S3, AWS Glue,
ECS Fargate, DynamoDB
Replace Office 365 with
AWS SES, SNS and SQS
Apply AI & Machine Learning
using AWS Sagemaker
Expose business events using
AWS Kinesis

15. © 2018 EXACT
vincent.lesierse@exact.com @vlesierseGet In Touch