This document discusses the benefits of migrating web apps to the cloud on AWS. It provides statistics showing increasing spending and adoption of cloud infrastructure and hybrid cloud models. 5 key reasons for migrating to AWS are reduced cost, flexibility and scalability, increased security and reduced risk, freeing up IT resources, and benefits of managed service providers. A case study example is presented of a hospitality company that consolidated servers, hosted over 60 apps on AWS across environments, and saw better reliability, faster delivery, improved visibility, and dramatic cost reduction working with a managed services provider.

1. 5 Reasons to Migrate
Web Apps to the
Cloud on AWS
March 2017

2. Agenda
▸ Trends
▸ Why consider the Cloud
▸ How Managed Services help
▸ A nice case study to bring it all together
▸ Q&A
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3. HELLO!
I am Alaaeldin El-Nattar.
I have been leading Rivet
Logic in helping our clients
achieve their Cloud
Transformation goals for
the past 5 years.
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4. What is everyone else
doing?
Here are some interesting facts…
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5. $55,800,000,000
According to researchers, total spending on cloud
infrastructure services, which stood at $10.3bn in the
fourth quarter of last year (up 49% year-on-year) will hit
$55.8bn in 2017 -- up 46% on 2016's total of $38.1bn.
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6. 50%of 1000-plus NA/EU
infrastructure technology
decision-makers said that they
are building private clouds
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7. 32%of those 1000-plus NA/EU
infrastructure technology
decision-makers are procuring
public cloud services
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8. 59%of those same 1000-plus
organizations are adopting a
hybrid cloud model
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9. “We recognized that we were spending
a lot of time, energy, effort and
management bandwidth to create
infrastructure that already exists out
there in a much better state and is
evolving at a furious pace
Rob Alexander, CIO - Capital One

10. Enterprise Apps
have made it into AWS and several CIOs are
becoming more comfortable hosting critical
software in the public cloud
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11. “Enterprises are turning great ideas into
software and insights faster and the
cloud is the best place to get quick
insights out of enterprise data
Dave Bartoletti, Analyst - Forrester

12. What About Security?
Cloud security has traditionally been the number
one reason to steer away from the Cloud. But
that is no longer the case.
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13. AWS Cloud Security & Compliance
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14. “AWS enables NASDAQ OMX to deliver
a solution that is tailored to our clients’
unique requirements in a secure,
confidential, compliant manner.
Jeff Kimsey, Associate Vice President of Product Management - NASDAQ OMX

15. 5 reasons to migrate
your apps to AWS
Yes, AWS not Azure or Google Cloud
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16. 1. Reduced Cost
▸ Infrastructure costs are
typically high
▸ Cloud infrastructure
vendors transfer
wholesale savings to their
customers
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“Our clients’ AWS
Costs are forecasted
to drop over time
freeing more budget
for strategic initiatives”

17. 2. Flexibility and Scalability
▸ Hardware provisioning typically
takes weeks and has a direct
impact on revenue
▸ AWS allows for elastic
infrastructure scalability
resulting in increased flexibility
and efficiency
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“With AWS’ APIs we are
able to manage all
aspects of our
hardware footprint in
minutes!”

18. 3. Increased Security & Reduced Risk
▸ Security robustness is extremely
critical with hacking on the rise
(but it’s also very expensive).
▸ AWS takes that burden off your
shoulders cheaply and provides
one of the best risk mitigation
options out there
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“Having the peace of
mind that thousands of
companies with stricter
security requirements
than us use AWS is
priceless.”

19. 4. Freeing up IT Resources to Focus on Strategic
Projects
▸ IT leaders are realizing that their time is better spent on
strategic initiatives that benefit their organization
▸ Outsourcing managed services is becoming the
defacto standard solution to this problem
▸ Job security concerns are real and must be dealt with
early on
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20. But … it’s not all roses
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21. Challenges
▸ AWS provides a great alternative for managing
infrastructure
▸ But it’s on you to manage the applications and provide
maintenance as well as SLAs to business sponsors
▸ Luckily there is a great solution for that, and it’s called
Managed Services Providers
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22. Why organizations
are turning to MSPs
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23. 5. Benefits of Managed Services
▸ Derisk operations
▸ Free up resources
▸ Benefit from the cloud without having to learn it
▸ Reduce operating cost
▸ Application support
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24. Rivet Logic’s Secret Recipe
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25. Here’s what Rivet Logic Managed Services can do for you
Increase
Quality
Reduce
Cost
Reduce
Risk
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26. Automation
Automation eliminates
the risk of human error
which is the number one
reason for self-inflicted
down-time
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27. Reactive Firewalls
▸ Automatically and
predictably ban
attackers
▸ Intrusion detection
▸ Intrusion prevention
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28. Custom Smart Monitoring
Intelligent monitoring is
critical to providing high
quality managed services
operations
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29. Place your screenshot here
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CASE STUDY
How we are helping a global
player in the hospitality
industry embark on their
highly anticipated cloud
transformation campaign

30. Case Study
Challenge
▸ Legacy managed
hosting solution
increasingly
cumbersome to manage
▸ Loose standards
▸ Lack of supporting
documentation
▸ Service quality problems
▸ High cost for little value
▸ Inability to innovate at
the desired pace
Solution
▸ Consolidation of servers
to < half the original on
AWS
▸ Hosting >60 apps in 3
environments
▸ Hundreds of thousands
of users
▸ >400 GB of daily content
served globally
▸ Location-based custom
content delivery
Results
▸ Better system reliability
▸ Faster projects delivery
▸ Improved visibility
through development
process
▸ Dramatic cost reduction
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