The document discusses assessing a customer's application portfolio for migration to AWS. It recommends a six-step process: 1) document business and technical drivers, 2) collect necessary data, 3) evaluate applications against drivers, 4) build a migration backlog, 5) further analyze patterns, and 6) begin migrations. It also describes an MPA application that can help automate aspects of the assessment.

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Assessing your Application
Portfolio
Ryan Brenon
Practice Manager
AWS Professional Services
E N T 2 0 2
Zach Hansen
Migration Analysis Consultant
AWS Professional Services

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Our problem statement
Customers can easily get sucked into the never-ending cycle of analyzing
applications across an ever-changing number of dimensions
• Application portfolios are extremely complicated
• They’re comprised of natively built applications, acquired businesses,
and SaaS solutions
• They have been built from the ground up and then added to via
acquisition creating duplication and obsolescence
• Their support has been outsourced, migrated, outsourced again, and
partially insourced
• The value of components is hard to quantify and their costs even more
so

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Our guidance to assess your [Customer’s] portfolio
Fully understanding your portfolio is a multi-step process
1. Document your business and technical drivers
2. Collect only the data you need to make decisions
3. Evaluate each application against those drivers
4. Build your migration backlog
5. Dive deeper, discover more, and solve patterns
6. Get migrating!

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Start with your business and technical drivers
These are the quantifiable reasons you’re leading this journey
• Bring new products to market faster
• Take advantage of global scale
• Divest or acquire a business line
• Reduce IT spend
• Close a facility / data center(s)
• Get rid of legacy technology

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Define and collect the data you need to analyze
An accurate, current, and complete data set is essential
1. Business
2. Application
3. Database
4. Infrastructure
Be honest, check your data, use a tool if you don’t have a complete set

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Build your migration backlog
The inventory must go!
1. Prioritize based on business drivers
2. Bookend your timeline
3. Staff to scale
4. Create logical groupings
Start moving!

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Application migration patterns
Redesign
Application/
Infrastructure Architecture
App Code
Development
Full ALM /
SDLC
Integration
Purchase COTS/
SaaS & licensing
Manual Install
& Setup
Modify underlying
Infrastructure
Determine
new platform
Retain / Revisit
Manual Config
Manual Deploy
Manual Install
Retire / Decommission
Discover/Assess/Prioritize
Applications
Determine
Migration
Path
Use Migration Tools
Transition ProductionValidation
Automate

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Re-host
Re-architect
Re-purchase
Re-platform
Level of effort
QUICK WINS
EASY OPTIMIZATIONS
SAAS-IFY BACK OFFICE
MODERNIZE LEGACY
Time
Types of migrations

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Migration Portfolio Assessment (MPA) application
AWS Professional Services developed application that
accelerates analysis of a customer’s IT estate
Key features:
• Automated data ingestion
• Right-sized EC2 instance and storage
recommendations based on performance profiles
• Run rate cost comparison between current state and
recommended AWS
• Over 100 variables with pre-populated industry defaults
to help dial in current costs, migration costs, and future
run rates
• Migration pattern analysis and recommendation (7R’s)
• Migration project estimating for resources, timelines,
and costs
• Customizable dashboards to visualize data
• Secure access to all Advanced and Premier Tier AWS
Partners

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14. Thank you!
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Ryan Brenon
rbrenon@amazon.com
Zach Hansen
zhhansen@amazon.com

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