Stories from the Frontline: The Best Laid Plans, Gotchas and Business Outcomes of Cloud Migration Every cloud migration journey has challenging moments. The AWS team will share customer stories and some of the lessons learned from migrating millions of applications to cloud and operating them. Aimed squarely at a business audience, you will hear how to structure your cloud migration program to realise the business benefits of reduced cost, increased agility, and improved stability whilst avoiding some of the pitfalls. Paul O'Rourke, ANZ ProServe Practice Manager, AWS

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Paul O’Rourke
Head of Professional Services, Australia and New Zealand, Amazon Web Services
Stories From The Frontline: The Best
Laid Plans, Gotchas And Business
Outcomes Of Cloud Migration

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What’s Ahead?
1
Insights, Examples & Learnings from
Enterprises that are moving to AWS
2
Approaches and Tools to accelerate your
organisation’s move to AWS

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1. Insights, Examples &
Learnings from Enterprises
that are moving to AWS

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Cloud Stages Of Adoption
What To Migrate When?
CLOUD-NATIVE
RETIRE
TECH
DEBT
value
timePROJECT
FOUNDATION
MIGRATION
REINVENTION
Dev/Test
Training
DR
H-A/standby
Backup
Mission critical production
Analytics
Non-critical production

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Customer Migration Examples

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Opportunity Cost In Migrating To AWS
Across 10
Enterprise
Customers
~85%
Server Portfolio
“Cloud Eligible”
>40%
Infra Cost Savings
>20%
Operations
Efficiencies
+
Increased
Business
Efficiences

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Patterns Driving Success
Clarity On The “Why”1
Regular Value Drops
Learning By Doing
Programmatic Training
Support For Multiple
Modes Of Operation
2
4
3
5

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Gotchas To Avoid
Science Projects1
Failure To Deliver Cloud
Platform As A Product
Failure To Transform People,
Process & Tools
Leaving Operational
Readiness Too Late
2
3
4

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2. Approaches & Tools to
accelerate your organisation’s
move to AWS

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AWS CAF Is A Great Starting Point…
AWS Cloud Adoption
Framework
Body of Knowledge
Domains, Concepts
Patterns, Best Practices
Structures, Dependencies
Cost Mgmt
BCP
Org
Structure
Architecture
Optimisation
Security
Review
Capability
Review
Process
Automation

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Leverage Structured AWS Migration Framework
ASSESSMENT READINESS & PLANNING APPLICATION MIGRATIONS
Migration Readiness
Assessment (MRA)
MigrationMigration Readiness and Planning (MRP)
Discover
Design
Build
Integrate
Cutover
Validate
Security &
Compliance
Landing
Zone
Skills/CoE
Operating
Model
Discovery
& Planning
Migration
Experience
Migration
Business Case
Migration
Plan
Operating
Model
Directional
Business Case
Rapid
Discovery

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Drive Sustained Support And Momentum By Delivering
Value Quickly And Regularly
Cloud Platform
Capability Backlog
Application On-
Boarding Strategy
Release 1
(X time-boxed Sprints)
1. Rapid
Discovery
2.
Elaborate using
CAF Perspectives
3.
Design &
Build
4.
Deploy & Test
Apps on MVP
5.
Gather
Feedback
Release 2
(X time-boxed Sprints)
1. Rapid
Discovery
2.
Elaborate using
CAF Perspectives
3.
Design &
Build
4.
Deploy & Test
Apps on MVP
5.
Gather
Feedback
Release N
(X time-boxed Sprints)
1. Rapid
Discovery
2.
Elaborate using
CAF Perspectives
3.
Design &
Build
4.
Deploy & Test
Apps on MVP
5.
Gather
Feedback
CAF User
Stories
App On-boarding /
Migration Plan
Value Drop 1 Value Drop 2 Value Drop N
App 1, 2, 3 App 4, 5 App 6..N
MLP Cloud
Operating Model
v1.0
MLP Cloud
Operating Model
v1.1
Highly Automated
Cloud Operating
Model

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Use Our AWS Accelerators….
Business Case
Accelerator
(to understand
the Why?)
AWS
Migration
Toolkit
50-in-50
4
Migration
Competency
Partners

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Takeaways
The Benefits
of Cloud are
Real
Regular Value
Drops
Don’t Re-Invent
the Wheel
1 2 3

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