Service migration to AWS from the engineering perspective by various categories

1. Migration to AWS
Jerry Liao
Jan 2020

2. Overview
Server based
Serverless based
Database
Network
CICD
Security
Operation
ETL

3. Premise
This talk is from engineer perspective, which is more
practical and straightforward

4. Why migration?
Maintainability
Scalability
Stability
Performance
Price

5. Concept
Minimum viable product (MVP)
Scrum
MVP MVP MVP

6. Server Based Infrastructure
VM based
EC2:
AMI & Instance type
Autoscaling (Horizontal)
Load balancer
Elastic Beanstalk
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-types.html

7. Server Based Infrastructure
Docker Based
ECS (Elastic Container Service)
EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

8. Serverless Based
Infrastructure
Lambda + API Gateway

9. Serverless Based
Infrastructure
Lambda spec
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg//limits.html
API Gateway spec
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-known-issues.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/limits.html

10. Database
SQL
RDS
NoSQL
Redshift (analytical)
DynamoDB
Provisioned
On-demand
Search
Elasticsearch Service
RDS database catalogue

11. Network
Security Group
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Subnet

12. Security
User management
Cognito (sign-up, sign-in & MFA)
Key management
KMS

13. Operation
Matrix
Cloudwatch
Notification
SNS
Logging
Cloudwatch

14. CICD
CodeCommit
CodeBuild
CodeDeploy
CodePipeline

15. Analytics
ETL
AWS Glue
Query
Athena
Visualisation
QuickSight
Async duplication
Kinesis

16. Others
Resource management
IAM
Infrastructure management
CloudFormation
Storage
S3
Message Queue
SQS

17. Pricing
Computing
Provisioned: EC2, Beanstalk, ECS, EKS are based on the same pricing model
On-demand: Lambda + API Gateway
Database
Provisioned: RDS, Redshift, Elasticsearch Service
On-demand: DynamoDB
Operation
Cloudwatch, SNS
Analytics
AWS Glue
Athena
QuickSight
Kinesis
Others

18. Summary
Before you migrate
Check limits
ASAP
Soon
Small