This document summarizes a presentation about Hansen Technologies' migration of their IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS. It discusses Hansen's motivations for migrating, the process they went through with migration partner Apps Associates, and the benefits they experienced after migrating to AWS, including lower costs, improved uptime, and ability to leverage managed services. It also provides an overview of considerations for migrating applications and databases to AWS and security best practices in the cloud.

1. Migrate and Manage Workloads
with Apps Associates
Sai Reddy Thangirala, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Thiru Sadagopan, VP, Cloud Services, Apps Associates LLC
Troy Vingom, Director of IT Operations, Hansen Technologies
January 26, 2017

2. Today’s speakers
Sai Reddy Thangirala
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Thiru Sadagopan
VP, Cloud Services
Apps Associates LLC
Troy Vingom
Director of IT Operations
Hansen Technologies

3. Hansen Technologies’
Migration to AWS
Troy Vingom, Director of IT Operations, Hansen Technologies

4. Hansen Technologies
To succeed in today’s technology and customer-driven
environment, your Energy & Utilities CIS provider must deliver
secure, reliable, and scalable technologies that will translate to
satisfied customers.
With more than 40 years in energy, utilities, gas, water &
wastewater sectors, Hansen offers a suite of CIS and B2B gateway
solutions built for Regulated Utilities, Municipalities, Energy
Retailers, and Distribution network companies. Our solutions enable
small to large organizations to react quickly to challenges posed by
industry, regulation, and increasing customer demands.
Delivering efficiency to your operations

5. APN Migration partners can help you:
Subsidiary of Pennsylvania Power &
Light Utilities group (PPL)
 Shared on-premises data centers
 Supported by corporate IT team
 Needed IT infrastructure to support entire company operations
 Customer facing applications that drive business
– B2B and 3rd party interactions to support business
– Complex databases to support operations
– New AD domain, back office applications at new office locations
– Call center networks and integrations

6. Choose an AWS Partner a
offering Oracle solutions
 Apps Associates
– Entire datacenter migrations
– Oracle competency—recognized
by AWS Partner program
Journey to AWS
Transition to Managed Services
for production operations
6 month migration cycle
 Multiple passes of migration for
integration, performance testing
 Migration over extended weekend
- Extensive validation and verification
of integrity of application environment

7. Choosing a Cloud Platform
Sai Reddy Thangirala, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

8. What sets AWS apart?
Building and managing cloud since 2006
70+ services to support any cloud workload
History of rapid, customer-driven releases
16 regions, 42 availability zones, 68 edge locations
51 proactive price reductions to date
Thousands of partners; 2,700+ Marketplace products
Experience
Service Breadth & Depth
Pace of Innovation
Global Footprint
Pricing Philosophy
Ecosystem

9. What are customers achieving with the AWS
platform?
Scale
Consumes 40%
of US internet
bandwidth at
peak hours
Security
Believes they can be
more secure on AWS
than in any private
data center
Cost-Effectiveness
Has reduced total
cost of IT ownership
by 52%
High-Performance
Has reduced
latency by more
than 90%

10. Barriers to Cloud adoption
Existing Investments Skeptical Stakeholders Upfront Costs
Application Interdependencies Fear of downtime during migration Lack of Cloud Expertise
Even if you’re ready to adopt, some real barriers make migrating
quickly and cost-effectively a challenge:

11. Overcome these barriers with AWS and APN partners
APN Migration partners can help you:
Determine your migration
strategy
Get a clearer roadmap to
achieving your desired
end-state
Reduce project timeline,
cost, and risk
Keep your people
focused on business
innovation

12. Opportunity
evaluation
Operations and
optimization
Discovery,
analysis,
and planning
Design Migration,
integration and
validation
AWS migration process

13. AWS Core Migration Services
 AWS Application Discovery Service
 AWS Server Migration Service
 AWS Database Migration Service
 AWS Import/Export Snowball
 AWS Snowball Edge
 AWS Snowmobile
Asset Discovery/Migration Data Transfer

14. Choosing the Right Partner
Thiru Sadagopan, VP, Cloud Services, Apps Associates LLC

15. Apps Associates
 AWS Premier Consulting Partner — Migration Competency
 50+ Certified AWS Architects
 First APN Partner to receive Oracle competency

16. 4 steps to a successful migration
Evaluate Develop Deploy Optimize
 Discover
 Assess
 Prioritize
 Perform TCO Analysis
 Rehost
(Lift & Shift)
 Replatform
(Lift & Reshape)
 Repurchase
(Replace – Drop &
Shop)
 Refactor
(Rewrite/Decouple)
 Train
 Test
 Transition
 Production
 Continuously Optimize
 Automate
 Manage Governance

17. Cloud Assessment - Approach
Discovery Process
Tools / Automation
 Automated agents to discover servers and applications
 Automated dependency mapping
 Architecture sizing through metrics
Interview Process
 SME Interviews (Application and Systems)
 Leverage existing documentation
 Understand Business processes, SLA’s and priorities
Discovery Methods
 Inventory and Dependencies
 Agent-less and Agent-based
 Active and Passive
 Event Driven
Data Center Configuration
(Virtual/Physical)
 Server/ Storage Inventory
 Network Configuration
 Security Requirements
 Real Time Discovery

18. Application Migration Approach*
*Extension of AWS’ Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
Test
Transition
Production
(In Parallel)
Retain/ Retire
Managed
Services
Application
and/or Cloud
Cloud
Migration
Methodology
for:
Packaged
Apps
Databases
Custom
Appliances
Rehost
(Lift & Sift)
> Install
> Config
> Migration Tools
Replatform
(Lift & Reshape)
> Design Infrastructure
> Migration Tools
> Reconnect Application
Repurchase
(Replace – Drop &
Shop)
> Software Selection
> Purchase COTS/SaaS
> Setup & Customize
Refactor
(Re-
write/Decouple)
> Redesign Develop
> Full ALM/SDLC
> Integration
Design, Develop & Standardize OptimizeDeployEvaluate
Discover
Assess
Prioritize
Train
Provide
Runbook

19. Cloud Assessment Workshop
Engagement / Project Management
Tools Based Analysis
 Inventory of
workloads
 Infrastructure
assimilation
 Current
Performance
 SLA Review
 RTO/RTD Review
 Security
 Current
Architecture
 Database
Footprint
 Database
Features
 Database
Licensing
 Security
 Application
Footprint
 Scalability
 Architecture
Design
 Business Rules
 Database Logic
 Security
 Application
Dependency
 SOA Framework
 Business Flows
 Business Cycles
 IT Operations
 Change
management
 Governance
 Chargeback
Models
 Compile All
requirements
 Build
architecture
 Review
Architecture
 Build Strategy
 Identify Phases
 Build effort
Model
 Build TCO Model
 Present
Roadmap
 Present TCO
Model
 Present Effort
Estimate
Infrastructure
Database +
Network Application
Integration +
Procedures
Roadmap Build
and Review
Presentation
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 5-nn

20. Factory model Approach to SuccessPhaseIPhase2
MultipleParallelTeams
Ramp up as
needed
ConstantCollaborationwithCustomerTeam
* Representative Timelines
Initialize and
Analyze
(2- 4 Weeks)
Migration Sprints
(2 – 4 weeks)
Migration Factory
Model
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* Exact fee and staffing for these phases will be determined after Phase 1

21. Cloud Managed Services
NextGen
MSP
Best
Practices
Integrated
Solution
 Cloud Governance
 Cost Management
 Best Practice Checks
– Security
– Operations
– Performance
– Hybrid Architecture
Availability

22. Go-To Partner for Oracle on AWS
Apps Associates is uniquely positioned to
help clients migrate and host Oracle
workloads on AWS because:
 We are an Oracle Platinum Partner specialized
in Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database
 We are an AWS Premier Consulting Partner
with an Oracle Competency
 We have 25+ clients on AWS based Hosted
Managed Services model for Oracle E-
Business Suite, Oracle BI, Hyperion and related
applications

23. AWS storage options for Oracle workloads
Storage Option General Database Applications Speed Durability
Instance Store Swap Temporary files
Reports cache, web
server cache
Very low latency Run time only
EBS—PIOPS / SSD Data files, redo logs Low latency
Highly Durable but
always backup
EBS Boot volume
Binaries, archive
logs
Binaries Moderate latency
Highly Durable but
always backup
Amazon S3 Backups Backups Backups Longer latency Very high durability
Amazon Glacier Long-term backups Long-term backups Long-term backups
Restore times of 3–
5 hours
Very high durability

24. Security
#1 Enterprise question
Is the cloud secure for my apps and data?
Physical
Security
Network
Security
Platform
Security
People &
Procedures

25. It’s a shared responsibility
You and/or Your
Service Provider
AWS
Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure
Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Client-side Data Encryption
& Data Integrity
Authentication
Customer Data
Server-side Encryption
(File System and/or Data
Network traffic protection
(Encryption/Integrity/
Identity
Platform, Applications, Identity & Access Management
Operating System, Network & Firewall Configuration

26. Comprehensive security capabilities
Access Control Encryption Networking Other
 Identity and Access
Management (IAM)
 Multi-factor Authentication
(MFA)
 Security Groups and
Network ACL
 Dedicated instances
 Amazon Key Management
Service
 Amazon S3 Server-Side
Encryption (SSE)
 Amazon RDS Oracle
Transparent Data
Encryption (TDE)
 AWS CloudHSM
 Client-Side SDK Data
Encryption
 AWS Virtual Private Cloud
(VPC)
 SSL Certificate
Management
 AWS Direct Connect
 VPN
 Service Health Dashboard
 CloudTrail
 Trusted Advisor
 Security Bulletins
 Signed API Access
 Amazon S3 Access Logs
 AWS Marketplace Security
Offerings
 Best Practices
 GovCloud

27. Hansen Technologies’
Migration to AWS
Troy Vingom, Director of IT Operations, Hansen Technologies

28. Operational considerations
Network access Instance types, AMI, Oracle DB
and Applications tier
Storage
Security and controls Housekeeping functions
 Cloning, patching needs for
custom application
 Backups, monitoring configurations
Migration approach to AWS

29. Network access
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
 Multi-AZ configuration for HA
 Isolated subnets for various tiers
 Security groups, ACL for data firewalls
 Trend Micro security services
 IPSEC tunnels via Amazon VPC
– Cisco CSR for B2B interactions
– Advanced logging and monitoring
– HA config across multi-AZ
– Agility to meet Soc1 controls

30. Instance types and AMIs
 High memory instances for databases
 Oracle maps to AWS cores for licensing options
 Oracle Linux versus Red Hat Linux
– Apply prerequisite rpms, kernel updates
– Create custom AMI for templatized deployments
 Similar approach for Windows OS

31. Database and application tiers
 Templatized versions of OS is best practice
– Coupled with release management cycles
 Single Database tier (non-RAC)
– Consolidated into fewer VMs
 Applications tier
 Leveraged Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
 SoftNAS solution for file systems
 HA configuration across multi-AZ
 Core solution for various file operations
 Facilitate extensive batch operations
 S3 to replace legacy document
management system

32. Storage consideration
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33. Housekeeping functions
Cloning environments to support
testing and development
 Developed a process for automated
refresh of test environment with
‘cleansed’ production data
Monitoring
 Easy to extend corporate
monitoring platform to AWS
 Oracle Enterprise Manager for
database operations

34. Post-AWS observations
 Lower infrastructure costs
 Costs easily tracked and managed
 Uptime equivalent to private third-party data center
 Reconsidered disaster recovery needs
and capabilities
 Leveraging AppsLens
– Apps Associates Cloud Managed Services

35. Future plans relative to AWS
 Implement DevOps / DevSecOps practices to optimize
application deployment efficiency
 Evaluate Amazon Redshift and related solutions for
modernizing BI
 Amazon RDS for managed databases
 Further Application modernization to leverage AWS platform

36. Questions?
Hansen Technologies
Troy Vingom
Troy.Vingom@hsntech.com
http://www.hsntech.com/
Apps Associates
Thiru Sadagopan
thiru.sadagopan@appsassociates.com
www.appsassociates.com
AWS
Sai Reddy Thangirala
thangira@amazon.com
www.aws.amazon.com

37. Special Offer — Migration Assessment
Complimentary for webinar attendees
Overview of AWS Architecture Roadmap & migration approach
including TCO analysis
Assessment of Datacenter
Environment

38. Thank You