The document discusses the challenges and best practices for enterprise application migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS), highlighting the contrast between the traditional data center and cloud environments. It emphasizes the need for a systems thinking approach to address the complexities and risks of migration, indicating that not all applications are suited for a straightforward lift-and-shift strategy. Additionally, it provides insights into initial migration strategies and tools that can aid in facilitating the process effectively.

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April 7, 2014
Adventures in Enterprise Application Migration to AWS
Dreams to Realities to Best Practices

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• Me?
– Kacy Clarke
– Vice President, Principal Architect at Cloud Technology Partners
– Cloud architecture, AWS, big data, application migration, cloud data
management, DevOps/ProdOps
kacy.clarke@cloudtp.com
– www.linkedin.com/in/kacyclarke/
– www.google.com/+KacyClarke
– @kacyclarke
updraft-downdraft.blogspot.com
• Us?
– Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. www.cloudtp.com
– A cloud consulting and products company focused on application
migrations and new application development
• This Session?
– A discussion of enterprise application migration: the dreams, the
realities, and best practices
Setting the Stage

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The Dream: Enterprise Application Migration

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A 2012 survey by IDC reports an average 72% savings and a seven month
payback for moving applications to Amazon Web Services
The Dream: The Pragmatists Are Starting to Move
Geoffrey Moore: Crossing the Chasm

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AWS is a very different environment from the
typical enterprise data center
• Applications are configured for pre-allocated capacity
• They assume infrastructure availability
• Infrastructure teams use ITIL processes for changes
• Operations teams monitor infrastructure, not apps
• Security teams want to encrypt and firewall everything
The Reality: Enterprise Applications Don’t Migrate That Easily
network
latency

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The Reality: The Cloud is Very Different
Traditional
Architectures
• Scale Up
• Monolithic
• Stateful
• Infra Dependent
• Fixed Capacity
• LAN Located
dependencies
• Latency intolerant
• Tightly coupled
• Consolidated /
clustered DB
• Rich / chatty client
• Commercial licenses
• Infra Supported
Availability
• Semi-automated
build/deploy
• Manual fault
recovery
• Active/Passive/DR
• Perimeter Security
• Allocated costs
The “Old World”
Cloud Aligned
Architectures
• Scale Out
• Distributed
• Stateless
• Infra Agnostic
• Elastic capacity
• WAN, Location
transparency
• Latency tolerant
• Loosely coupled
• Sharded / replicated
/ distributed DB
• Mobile/thin client
• PaaS / Open Source
• App Supported
Availability
• Continuous
Integration/Delivery
• Self healing, fault
tolerant
• Active/Active
• Defense in depth
• Pay as you go
The “New World”
The Targets
Refactor
Automate

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Cloud is harder and has a broader impact than enterprises expected
The Reality: Enterprises are Concerned About the Effort and Risk
Gartner Inc., 2013

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The Reality Check for Enterprise Application Migration
• The Lift and Shift Dream
• The Forklift Dream

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The Lift and Shift Dream

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The Dream: Creating a Data Center Annex
Enterprise
DC Annex
Enterprise
Data Center
Used for:
• Dev/Test
• Non-critical workloads
• BC/DR
• Batch analytics
• Storage
Cloud Provider
Built on:
• IaaS
• BYOL
• Extension of current
Ops/Security

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Application
Data
App Infrastructure
• Webservers
• App Servers
• Database Servers
OS, File System, Network Topology
Security Framework
Operational Tools
Virtualization
Compute, Storage, Network
Cloud Provider Data Center
The Dream: Lift and Shift Application Migration
Internal Deployment Cloud Deployment
Application
Data
App Infrastructure
• Webservers
• App Servers
• Database Servers
OS, File System, Network Topology
Security Framework
Operational Tools
Virtualization
Compute, Storage, Network
Internal Data Center

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You don’t have to change your applications to migrate to the cloud
Baseline Migration Will Enable Rapid Lift and Shift Migration
• Simple discovery tools
• Automated application migration
• Same operations environment and security
framework
• Example Cloud Migration Tool Vendors:
– Racemi
– RiverMeadow
– CloudVelocity
– Ravello Systems
– Bolt VTA by Yuruware
– Rackware
– Appcara
– CliQr
– AppZero

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The Reality: Enterprise Applications Don’t Always Fit the Cloud

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• Missed SLA’s
• Long Mean Time to Recovery
• Gaps in monitoring and operational tools
• Sporadic performance problems
• Data synchronization and placement issues
• SDLC sprawl and inconsistencies
• Lack of transparency on what’s happening with
the application or the system
• Dev and operational skills and knowledge
• Integration latency
• Manual or frozen configurations
• Compliance or security findings
• Cost savings objectives not met
The Reality: Lift and Shift Can Result in Cloud Migration Debt

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systems thinking: a holistic approach to analysis
that focuses on the way that a system's
constituent parts interrelate and how systems
work and change over time and within the context
of larger systems. The systems thinking approach
contrasts with traditional analysis, which studies
systems by breaking them down into their
separate elements
• Cloud Migration Impacts:
– Application Architecture
– Infrastructure Architecture
– Data Lifecycle Management
– Security and Compliance
– SDLC
– Operations and Monitoring
– Support
– Cost Management and Planning
Application migration requires the holistic analysis of systems thinking
The Reality: It’s Not an Application, It’s a System

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1. Rehost/Lift and Shift
2. Replatform and Tune
3. Fully Refactoring
Best Practices: Initial Application Migration Strategies

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Application
Data
App Infrastructure
• Webservers
• App Servers
• Database Servers
OS, File System, Network Topology
Security Framework
Operational Tools
Virtualization
Compute, Storage, Network
Cloud Provider Data Center
Best Practices: Enhanced Lift and Shift
Internal Deployment Cloud Deployment
Application
Data
App Infrastructure
• Webservers
• App Servers
• Database Servers
OS, File System, Network Topology
Security Framework
Operational Tools
Virtualization
Compute, Storage, Network
Internal Data Center

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1. Bootstrap or fully bake AMIs
2. Automate provisioning and processes
3. Replace existing storage options with AWS Storage (EBS, S3, RDS, etc..)
4. Test mounted file systems carefully (GlusterFS, Ceph) and replace if necessary
5. Leverage AWS security features (IAM, security groups, VPC, key pairs, MFA, VPN
connectivity, etc..)
6. Evaluate networking options (Direct Connect, WAN optimization, )
7. Analyze data movement performance and cost (AWS Import/Export, Storage
Gateway, data compression, etc..)
8. Upgrade your system and application monitoring to gather more metrics
Even with Lift and Shift, some changes are needed to deploy on AWS
Best Practices: Enhanced Lift and Shift

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Application
Data
App Infrastructure
• Webservers
• App Servers
• Database Servers
OS, File System, Network Topology
Security Framework
Operational Tools
Virtualization
Compute, Storage, Network
Cloud Provider Data Center
Best Practices: Replatform and Tune
Internal Deployment Cloud Deployment
Application
Data
App Infrastructure
• Webservers
• App Servers
• Database Servers
OS, File System, Network Topology
Security Framework
Operational Tools
Virtualization
Compute, Storage, Network
Internal Data Center

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• Resiliency and Self-Healing
– Alerting and monitoring for failures, automated reconnect/restart/recover
– Application managed availability
– Increased redundancy, spread across more availability zones
• Data Management
– Cloud integrated data lifecycle and master data management, optimized data movement
• Replatform to leverage AWS Native App Infrastructure (Elasticache, RDS, DynamoDB,…)
• Transparency and Metrics
– New application monitoring tools and activity logging
– User Experience and performance testing/monitoring
• Elasticity and Right Sizing
– Cost monitoring and instance type optimization
– Fully automated provisioning, pre-warmed instances for planned scaling
• Manageability
– Auto-response for common conditions
– Integrated app and systems monitoring with joint DevOps/SysOps team
Targeted optimization of the application, infrastructure, tools and operations
Best Practices: Second Generation AWS Modifications

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The Forklift Dream

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The Dream: Large Scale App Portfolio Migration to the Cloud
• “We want to move 40-50% of our 9000
applications to the cloud in 2 years”
• “Our objective is to shutdown our data
center in 18 months”
• “We’re constrained by power and cooling
and need to expand our capacity outside of
our four walls.”
• “Our applications all run on VMware so
they should move easily.”
• “We’ll just move the easy applications first,
and then we’ll know enough to be able to
move the mission critical applications”
• “This is an infrastructure (or application) led
project. The other teams don’t need to be
involved until we figure the strategy out.”

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• F1000 application portfolios can contain
1000’s
• Most application portfolio or configuration
management databases (CMDB) are <
50% complete and < 50% accurate
• Cloud strategies are being decided in
boardrooms and executive suites
• Enterprises don’t have the knowledge nor
the resources to refactor every application
• Missing automated builds or test suites to
rapidly validate releases
• Spaghetti integrations between apps
• Unknown dependencies
• Low hanging fruit sometimes have worms
The Reality: Migrating Apps is Shaped by What You Don’t See

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Use a fact based, decision support methodology and tool-set to guide placement of applications
within a range of infrastructure endpoints from physical servers to private cloud to public cloud
Best Practices: Application Portfolio Analysis at Scale
Stay where it is
Target Endpoints
Target Cloud
Provider
Refactor /
Replatform /
Replace
Options for Application
Rationalization
DepthAnalysis
Replace
Reuse
Refactor
Replatform
Rehost
Retain
Retire
App Strategy
Sensitive Data
COTS vs.
Custom
Commodity vs.
Core
Workload
Logical
Architecture
Eco-system
Criticality
Programming
Language
Physical
Architecture
Availability
Application
Decision
Framework -
ADF™
Breadth Analysis

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• Determining the right migration
strategy for your app depends on
its level of cloud alignment, cloud
readiness, potential benefits
achieved from migrating, and risks
• Not everything will migrate
• Migration strategy selection also
depends on the target cloud
endpoint
• Public and other external cloud
endpoints may require 2x-10x
effort
• Rehost and replatform strategies
minimize change for applications
that are either cloud ready, or
have higher risks or lower cloud
benefits
• Refactor and reuse strategies
accept the cost of change in
return for business benefits
• There are patterns, processes,
teams and tools to support each
strategy and each cloud endpoint
Best Practices: Application Migration Is Not One Size Fits All
• Replace application with SaaS service
• Build cloud native application with similar / improved
characteristics and features
• Develop and productize common business and
technical services
• Consolidate similar applications and services
• Targeted changes to the application to address issues
leverage the cloud
• Revise applications to leverage common services
• Move to more cloud-aligned technology and platform
services
• Integration with cloud operations and monitoring
• Lift and shift, minimizing changes, virtualization
replatforming
• Leave application as-is; do not move to cloud
• Application end of life
Replace
Reuse
Refactor
Replatform
Rehost
Retain
Retire

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Best Practices: Applying Systems Thinking to Migration@Scale
Fast Track
Application Assessment
Code Depth Analysis
and Initial POCs
Infrastructure
Applications
Operations
SDLC/Testing
Governance
Integration
Security
Planning
Data
Execution

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PaaSLane Accelerates Portfolio Analysis
Application Decision
Framework
Thousands of Applications
Narrow Candidate Applications
Define Target Applications
Days
Minutes

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Depth: PaaSLane™ for Cloud Migration & Development
PaaSLane™ analyzes application source code,
discovering issues and recommending
solutions to ensure cloud readiness and
accelerate application migrations.
1
2
Rapidly Profile Java and
.NET Application Code
Assess Application Readiness
for Multiple Cloud Platforms
3
Deliver Code Remediations
Required for Cloud Platforms
4
Estimate Development Effort
Required to Implement
Remediations
3 Key Use Cases
1. Cloud Health Check
Pre-migration review and
estimation.
2. Cloud Migration
Track progress of cloud
readiness effort.
3. Continuous Optimization
Keep applications optimized for
the cloud.
Assess Cloud Readiness In Minutes, Not Weeks

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Amazon Rules
• 30+ rules to help migrate applications to AWS
• Recommend AWS services such as S3, RDS, SES, SMS, etc.
Default Rule Categories
– General: Best practices for creating cloud-native applications.
– Availability: Potential stability issues in cloud platforms.
– Performance: Improving application performance and reducing overprovisioning.
– Quality: Improving overall code quality and adherence to standards.
– Scalability: Enhancing elasticity and reducing bottlenecks in the cloud.
– Security: Implementing secure coding practices and strong cryptography.
– Standardization: Enforcing platform standardization and identifying third-party dependencies.
PaaSLane™ AWS Edition: Data Driven Refactoring
• May fail to run or be a high security riskBlockers
• Likely to impact performance or functionalityImportant
• May be impactful: further research requiredWarnings
• Build a more cloud-native applicationOptimizations