The document discusses cloud migration strategies including re-hosting, re-platforming, and re-architecting applications. It notes that the cloud services market is projected to grow significantly through 2027, creating over a million new jobs in India alone. Key skills needed for these jobs include programming languages, server management, infrastructure as code, platform as a service, and DevOps tools.

1. Cloud Migration and job
Opportunities
Anirban Kundu
Manager, Product Manager, Guidewire
07/25/2021

2. Our
Agenda
Cloud
Migration(45min)
Introduction
What is Cloud?
Business Drivers
01
02
03
04
05 Strategies for Migration
Who are the Key players?
06 Opportunities & Learning

3. Have you ever seen these rooms before?

4. And this is Cloud !!!!

5. This is how a modern Cloud infrastructure looks like
The Apple Data Center in Mesa, Ariz., in 2017
Inside a Data Center

6. Who are the major Cloud Service Providers
Worldwide market share of leading cloud infrastructure service providers in Q1 2021

7. What are the business drivers?
• Operational Costs
• Workforce Productivity
• Cost Avoidance
• Operational Resilience*
• Business Agility**
* The AWS Cloud spans across 81 Availability Zones within 25
geographic regions around the world
Cost Savings
(TCO)
8%
Operational
Resilience
13%
Staff
Productivity
32%
Business
Agility
47%
DRIVERS
Cost Savings (TCO) Operational Resilience
Staff Productivity Business Agility
** At Guidewire, we are releasing the infrastructure in every 2 weeks

8. Three-tier architecture
UI Layer Backend Layer Database Layer

9. What are the strategies for Cloud migration
Re-host (Referred to as a
“lift and shift.”)
Re-platform (Referred to as
“lift, tinker, and shift.”)
Re-factor / Re-architect
(micro-services/monoliths)
Re-purchase
Retire
On-prem
Public Cloud
Private Cloud

10. HOST/Bare Metal
Strategies – Being Cloud Native
Hypervisor (Virtualization of HW resources,
Memory, RAM, Ntw)
VM
OS
VM
Linux
VM
Unix
App App App App App App
Host OS
Virtualization
HOST/Bare Metal
Runtime Engine
Containers
Host OS
Containers Containers
Node
JS
Containerization
Developed in local

11. Advantages of being Cloud Native
• Reconciliation
• Controlling application runtime via
configuration
• Scaling up and down
• Development speed

12. How is the job opportunity worldwide?
• The cloud services market size was valued at $264.80 billion in 2019, and is
projected to reach $927.51 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 16.4% from
2020 to 2027.
• As the Indian cloud computing market, currently at $2.2 billion, is expected to grow
to $4 billion by 2020 with an annual growth rate of more than 30%; IDC estimated
more than one million new jobs to be created in India.

13. What
should you
learn?
Any programming language (Java,
Node JS, Python, Ruby)
Server Management Linux, Unix,
Windows, Virtualization
IAC (Terraform, Cloudformation)
IaaS (VM Management, DB
Management – PostgreSQL)
PaaS (Kubernetes, Docker)
DevOps (Github, Jenkins, Bamboo,
Circle CI)

14. Learning opportunities
• Udemy
• AcloudGuru
• PluralSight
• LinkedIn Learning
• Certifications through AWS, Azure, GCP

15. Anirban Kundu
ankundu@ucdavis.edu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kundu-anirban/