Embark on a transformative journey to modernization with CloudThat and AWS. Explore key aspects such as global infrastructure, security, innovation, and cost efficiency. Understand the compelling reasons customers choose AWS, navigate through challenges, and uncover the business drivers fueling the migration to the cloud.
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About Me
Prarthit Mehta
VP - Tech Consulting,
CloudThat
• Tech Geek
• In cloud space for the 10+ years
• AWS Partner Ambassador (India)
• Expert at designing solutions on Cloud
• Part of several AWS Roundtables and Industry Forums
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CloudThat: A Bird’s Eye View of the Organization
CloudThat incepted in 2012, is one of the first Indian organizations to offer Cloud Consulting
& Training services for Customers globally.
AWS Advanced Consulting Partner; DevOps practice since 2014; Provide AWS Consulting
Services in 4 continents
DevOps Services Competency, Well-Architected Partner
Years in
Business
10+
Projects
Delivered
300+
Cloud
Certifications
350+
Countries
Served
28+
Workforce
500+
Professionals
Trained
500K+
Organizations around the world are moving to a cloud-based infrastructure to increase IT agility, nearly unlimited scalability, improve reliability, and lower costs. Moving to the cloud allows customers to innovate faster because they can focus their highly valuable IT resources on developing applications that differentiate their business and transform customer experiences instead of the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing infrastructure and data centers. When deciding which cloud provider to select, companies often base their decision on the quality, performance, and scale of the provider’s global data center infrastructure. Companies want to trust their assets and IT infrastructure to a provider that has the most advanced systems, security, processes, and controls in place to deliver the performance, experience, and business return needed by the largest of corporations. With cloud computing, AWS manages and maintains the technology infrastructure in a secure environment and businesses access these resources via the Internet to develop and run their applications.
AWS’s infrastructure is
3.6x more energy efficient
than the median of surveyed U.S. enterprise data centers
What are we trying to articulate on this slide:
We want to communicate to the customer that we have the capabilities to solve virtually any customer use case or technology need.
We have the broadest range of services available.
Talking points:
There are a lot of different products and services and SAs are here to provide guidance that support each customer to meet the desired outcome.
Continually expanding our offerings to support any cloud workload
Customers can choose what is right for them, and use as much or as little AWS products as needed
Everything is built on core services such as Compute, Storage, Databases and Networking
Customers can leverage higher level services to remove undifferentiated heavy lifting, or continue to operate with core/primitive services to function as they have in the past
Higher level product categories range from Analytics such as data warehousing to Enterprise Applications such as corporate email and virtual desktops.
Discuss the depth of a handful of these services. For example, our database services offer several DB engines including MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc. and include features such as multi-AZ replication, automatic backups, etc.
We offer a robust set of resources to help in the journey, such as professional services and support.
For commercial products, we have a larger partner ecosystem which offers technologies and tools from partners like F5, Cisco, etc.
Relevant customer examples:
Identify at least one other AWS customer that is relevant to this customer, and give details on a solution they’re running on AWS.
Conversations topics:
What kind of technologies and solutions are you leveraging today?
Where areas are working well for you, and which aren’t?
What functionality or capabilities are you interested in?
Do you have resources that spend time working on non-business related tasks (managing backups, storage admins, etc.)
Other tips:
This slide can be daunting at first glance, but is very powerful in telling our breadth and depth.
Take notice that there are no product name references here. We are abstracting our service/product names here, and driving toward the technology area that resonates with the customer
Go into the meeting knowing some technologies that the customer uses. This will require some prep work.
Take a look at how Andy covered this topic, https://youtu.be/1IxDLeFQKPk?t=532 . You can start from the bottom left and move across. Talk about not just the broad number of categories here, but that there is depth in each of these.
Be able to talk to these services at a high-level using Level 100 Services Wiki (https://w.amazon.com/bin/view/SA_Onboarding_Level_100_Technical_Product_Content_and_Resources/), or AWS Tech Professional Course (https://kiku.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=45423).
If you don’t have the answer to a question about a specific service remember to handle it gracefully. For example, indicate to the customer that you don’t know the answer (never lie) and say you will follow-up with a specialist and get back to them. And actually get back to them as if it were a real-world scenario.
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In 2019, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net zero carbon across our business by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.
Scientists tell us that we have a limited window to make unprecedented headway in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050. To drive collective, cross-sector action on the climate crisis, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge with Global Optimism on the conviction that global businesses are responsible, accountable, and able to act on the climate crisis.
In addition to achieving net-zero carbon by 2040, Amazon also made a commitment to power our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2030, and we are on a path to meet that target by 2025.
In 2020, we announced The Climate Pledge Fund, which is a dedicated investment program—with an initial $2 billion in funding—to invest in visionary companies whose products and solutions will facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
451 Research surveyed senior stakeholders at over 300 enterprises about their infrastructure operations at their largest US data center location (on-premises or colocation), and found that AWS’s infrastructure is 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median of U.S. enterprise data centers surveyed.
More than two-thirds of this advantage is attributable to the combination of a more energy-efficient server population and much higher server utilization. AWS data centers are also more energy efficient than enterprise sites due to comprehensive efficiency programs that touch every facet of the facility.
When they factored in the carbon intensity of consumed electricity and renewable energy purchases, which reduce associated carbon emissions, AWS performs the same task with an 88% lower carbon footprint.
https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/carbon_reduction_aws.pdf
One of the important trends that we have been seeing over the past few years is that technology has gradually moved into the boardroom, resulting in Digital Enterprises and Businesses. The boundaries have blurred between business and IT and IT has moved from being a cost center to a revenue and growth driver.
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Whenever we used to plan any IT project, it used to call for a large upfront capital investment. With Cloud, it is a whole new world altogether.
PRIMARY MESSAGE:
There are many different drivers for customers like you to initiate a journey to AWS.
You are driven by compelling events such as a cost objective, target dates to exit and consolidate data centers, or end of life hardware and software. But the conversation is changing.
Boards of Directors expect more than just cost savings and efficiency even though customers are achieving 25-50% savings in AWS vs. on premises costs.
They want to be able to move faster and transform customer experiences.
They want to deliver digital transformations and modernize businesses.
They want to re-invest cost savings to drive new innovations and business models.
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Specially for modernization, the 2 Rs that are relevant are replatform and refactor. As you migrate applications to the Cloud or if you have apps running in the cloud, those are the 2 Rs that are relevant in this discussion. If there is a pressing question feel free to ask in the chime window. We will have plenty of time towards the end to address any questions you may have.
[MIGRATION PATTERNS]
One critical aspect of developing your migration strategy is to collect application portfolio data and rationalize it into what we refer to as “The 7 R’s”: Retire, Retain, Relocate, Rehost, Repurchase, Replatform and Refactor.
This is a method for categorizing what is in your environment, their interdependencies, each application’s technical complexity and business criticality, and how you’ll go about migrating each application or set of applications.
Assessing your application portfolio and determining the application migration pattern for all of you applications is a critical step to the success of your migration planning and execution.
Early cloud adopter CIO’s from large enterprises have warned us that they desired to jump straight to a all-in “Refactoring” of all their applications to take full advantage of the cloud.
This can result in a lengthy design process before moving your first workloads to the cloud as rewrite applications. Based on their advice and witnessing customers have success, we advise you to take advantage of significant lift and shift opportunities to get your cloud migration move quickly, gain cloud experience, and see cost-savings quickly.
This jumpstarts your refactoring effort. As well, you can always refactor after you lift and shift and have gained more cloud experience. We also want to call out an emerging new “R”, especially for customers that may need to maintain large hybrid environments – Relocate. You can quickly relocate applications based on VMware and container technologies quickly to AWS with minimal effort and complexity.
Finally, our customers tell us that having hundreds of examples like these are one of the reasons they find AWS the easiest platform the migrate to. We’re going to continue to harvest learnings from this experience so that we can accelerate customers through commonly encountered migration scenarios using prescriptive guidance and best practice.
There is a full spectrum of patterns for migrating and modernizing on the cloud and they can be activated early in the transformation journey. 60% of a typical environment can be rapidly migrated at a predictable price, freeing time and budget to focus on modernization (replatform and refactor motions). Migration and modernization can also be run in parallel so that modernization is introduced early into the transformation journey.
Focus on apps that has the highest business value and a large return on investment
Do not pick one off apps that has a low business impact and a low return on investment
Here are a few business considerations as you evaluate which workloads to modernize
Here are a few technical considerations as you evaluate which workloads to modernize
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