The document outlines a migration framework for transitioning to the AWS cloud, detailing the increasing trend of organizations moving applications to the cloud due to benefits like cost reduction and improved productivity. It discusses various phases of cloud migration including planning, deployment, optimization, and addresses challenges related to application readiness and migration methods. Additionally, it highlights recommended AWS services for different migration scenarios and provides statistics on enterprise application migration trends.

1. Migration Framework
To the Cloud
Migrating to AWS Cloud
October, 2012
Migration Solution To Cloud
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2. Why Cloud?
5% of organizations have migrated at
least half of their applications to the
cloud, but that number is set to
increase to 20% by the end of the year.
5% Organization Moved
50% Apps to Cloud
30% Moved to 41% Moved to
cloud based cloud
on customer following
requirement industry trend
52% Moved to cloud to
improve costs, productivity,
Advantages of Cloud agility
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3. Challenges
Private /Public /Hybrid
Identifying the Applications Identify the right cloud
What deployment model
for migration best fit to take environment .
suites the application ?
advantage of cloud SaaS or PaaS or IaaS
Identifying Identifying Cloud Deployment
Application Environment Model
Is your application ready for Identifying and resolving How to have business
cloud or does it needs dependence of other continuity during migration?
re-architecting ? application, hardware,
firewall, network , security
etc
Business
Re-architecting for Resolving Continuity Plan
Cloud Dependencies During Migration
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4. BlazeClan's Cloud Migration Approach
Enterprises typically Important to identify Plan
have a large number of applications for Deploy
IT Assets migration Optimize
Identify
Large IT Assets Application Phase Approach
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5. Plan Phase – Cloud Assessment
Financial Assessment Service Level Agreement
Security & Compliance Data Portability
Assessment Long Term Costs
Technical & Functional User management
Assessment Security
Application Mapping in terms of Scalability Platform Management
dependency tree and Cloud
suitability
Identifying Cloud vendor SaaS or PaaS or
Migrating Product Licenses
Definition of Success Criteria IaaS ?
Plan with Roadmap
WAN traffic
Data security And
Management
Legacy Application
Integration
Security and Compliance
Private or Public
Cloud Assessment cloud?
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6. Deploy Phase – Data Migration
Migrate Fileserver systems Profile the various storage
Automated scripts for migration options available in your vendor
Backups and Tape Drives Cloud
Evaluate options to move large Plan for uploading data in batches
sets of data to the Cloud e.g. AWS Analyze your datasets and
Import/Export databases
Evaluate various RDBMS options
in the Cloud e.g. Amazon RDS
Ensure data encryption for
security
Application Data Database
Migration Migration
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7. Deploy Phase – Application Migration
Hybrid Migration is Partial
Forklift is an approach where all
Migration approach
the components are migrated to
e.g. batch processing in cloud,
cloud at the same time.
application on premise
Forklift is useful for
Integrate Cloud applications with
Stateless applications
cloud incompatible legacy
Tightly coupled applications
applications
Self-contained applications
e.g. self contained web
applications, backup and archival
systems, low latency web
applications
Forklift Migration Hybrid Migration
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8. Optimize Phase – Optimize Cloud Setup
Auto terminate under-utilized Application Re-engineering
instances through AWS Auto Scale Ability to restart on failure
option Separation of tiered components
Application packaging for AMI Extract stateful components and
construction. make them stateless
Improve efficiency of data access Decompose relational database
(e.g. caching layer through AWS
Elastic Cache )
Leverage Cloud Optimize Cloud
Architecture Setup
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9. Migration use cases and scenarios
Migration of eCommerce Log analysis and report Migration of Employee
website with Mobile extension generations with a motive of Performance Management
for creating property inventory faster time to process . System with an motive to
reports of commercial and non- AWS services recommended lower the total cost of
commercial properties with an EC2, EBS, S3, SQS, EMR, ownership , resilient solution
motive of elasticity and DynamoDB, SNS and high availability
scalability . AWS services recommended
AWS services recommended EC2, S3, EBS, AS, ELB, CW, RDS
EC2, S3, EBS, AS, ELB, CW, RDS
Backend Process
Web Application Batch Processing Workflow App
Migration App Migration Migration
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10. Trends in Enterpise Application Migration
What is moving to Cloud ? 72% Storage
74% Web Service
77% Email
Collaboration
20%
Storage
33.00%
Email
21.00%
ERP
Already on
26.00% Cloud
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