When you plan your data center migration to the cloud, it's critical to consider how workloads will run to ensure maximum performance and availability. With Microsoft applications making up 60% or more of most on-premises data centers, more and more customers are moving their Microsoft workloads to AWS to improve performance, increase availability, and improve their security posture. In this session, we discuss how customers are accomplishing this task. We cover the common architectural patterns for moving Microsoft applications such as SQL Server, SharePoint, and Dynamics, and we discuss how to integrate with Active Directory for a seamless transition. We also examine tools like AWS Application Discovery and AWS Server Migration Service that can help make your move faster and easier.

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AWS re:INVENT
Migrating Your Microsoft
Applications to AWS
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In this session…
• The focus of this session is on migrating your existing Microsoft
applications to AWS
• Why AWS for Microsoft applications
• Planning an order of operations for migrating Microsoft applications to
AWS
• Microsoft licensing on AWS
• Resources
• Summary

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Why AWS for Microsoft Applications

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Why AWS? The Global Infrastructure
AWS infrastructure
global footprint

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Current instance families and generation Family/usage
M4, M3 General purpose compute
T2 Burstable performance
C4, C3 Compute optimized
X1, R4, R3
Memory
optimized
P2, G3, F1 Accelerated computing
I3
Storage optimized
(I/O)
D2
Storage optimized
(density)
Why AWS? Flexible Compute Options

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Why AWS? Game Changing Services &
Features
For instance:
• Amazon EC2—dedicated hosts
• Amazon EC2—dedicated instances
• Amazon EC2—VM import/export
• Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
• Amazon EBS—elastic volumes
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• Amazon WorkSpaces
• AWS Config
• AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
• AWS Server Migration Service
• And more…

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Case Study: Dole Food Co.
• Searching for a solution to host its Microsoft
SharePoint sites, the company chose AWS because
of cost and to improve operational efficiency
• By running on AWS, Dole can launch a new
SharePoint website in minutes and host business
intelligence and mobile applications globally
• Dole estimates savings of $350,000 in operating
expenses by migrating to AWS

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Case Study: Delaware North
• Its on-premises data center was becoming too expensive and
inefficient to support its global business operations, so it
turned to AWS to move most of its enterprise applications and
operations to the cloud
• The move, which reduced its server footprint by more than 90
percent, is expected to save Delaware North at least $3.5
million in IT acquisitions and maintenance over five years
• Delaware North runs Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server,
and System Center Configuration Manager on AWS, among
many other services

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Planning an Order of Operations
for Migrating Microsoft Applications
to AWS

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What Does Every Enterprise Microsoft
Service Depend On?
• Active Directory!
• With Active Directory, identify your AD architecture
• You can choose to extend your existing domain or domains
into AWS or deploy a new domain in AWS—with or without
trust relationships
• Bring your existing group policies

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Single Region/Single VPC AD Design
Availability Zone A
AWS Region
Virtual
Private
Gateway
Domain
controller(s)
Availability Zone B
VPC
Customer
network
Domain
controller(s)
Private subnet Private subnet

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Single Region/Multiple VPC AD Design
Availability Zone A
AWS Region
VGW
Domain
controller(s)
VPC
Private subnet
Availability Zone B
Domain
controller(s)
Private subnet
Customer
network
VPC
VGW
VPC
Peering
Availability Zone Availability Zone
OPTIONAL
DC(s)
OPTIONAL
DC(s)

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Multiple Regions/Single VPC AD Design
Availability Zone A
AWS Region 1
DC(s)
VPC
Private subnet
Availability Zone B
DC(s)
Private subnet
Customer
network
VGW
AWS Region 2
DC(s)
VPC
Private subnet
DC(s)
Private subnet
Availability Zone BAvailability Zone A
VGW
Inter Region
Connectivity

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What Next to Migrate After AD?
• SQL Server—it’s required for
• SharePoint
• Skype for Business
• System Center Configuration Manager
• System Center Operations Manager
• Dynamics CRM
• BizTalk
• And more…

15. SQL Server Migration Options to AWS
Migration
method
Amazon
RDS
Target
Amazon
EC2 Target
Downtime DB Objects Cross-
Engine
Backup/Restore Yes Yes Yes
(hrs)
Data, Schemas, Stored
Procedures, Triggers, Indexes
No
Import/Export
Bulk Copy
Yes Yes Yes
(mins-hrs)
Data, Schemas, Stored
Procedures, Triggers, Indexes
No
SQL Log
Shipping*
No Yes Minimal
(secs-mins)
Pre-create the DB, Sync No
Hybrid
Architecture*
No Yes Minimal
(secs-mins)
Pre-create the DB, Sync No
AWS DMS* Yes Yes Minimal
(secs-mins)
With SCT (Data, Schemas,
Stored Procedures, Triggers,
Indexes)
Yes (SCT)
* Network bandwidth and latency considerations

16. Customer
premises
Application users
AWS
Internet
VPN
Start a replication instance
Connect to source and target
databases
Select tables, schemas, or
databases
 Let AWS DMS create tables,
load data, and keep them in
sync
 Switch applications over to
the target at your convenience
Keep your SQL Server Applications Running During the
Migration
AWS
DMS

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What to Migrate After SQL Server?
• Fan out/deploy multiple systems in parallel
• Exchange
• SharePoint
• Skype for Business
• System Center Configuration Manager
• System Center Operations Manager

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Microsoft Licensing on AWS

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Microsoft Licensing Options on AWS
Buy license-included instances from AWS Bring your own licenses to AWS
Windows Server with
SQL Server
Dedicated options if
you don’t have
Software Assurance
Default tenancy for
licenses eligible for
License Mobility
Windows Server

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License Included (AMIs from AWS)
• Fully managed licensing
• All versions of Windows Server
• Supported versions of SQL Server (optional)
• Hourly instance cost includes license
• No need to buy Software Assurance
• No need to buy Client Access Licenses (CALs)
• Includes 2 remote desktop CALs

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Microsoft Licensing on EC2

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Resources

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Resources
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft FAQ
https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/
Microsoft Licensing on AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/windows/resources/licensing/
Microsoft Servers on the AWS Cloud—Quick Start
docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/accelerator-
msservers/welcome.html

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Related Sessions
• WIN304—How to Bring Microsoft Apps to AWS to Unlock your Budget
• WIN306—Design, Deploy, and Optimize SQL Server on AWS
• WIN309—How To Optimize AWS Architectures for SharePoint
Deployments
• WIN314—Strategies for Migrating Microsoft SQL Databases to AWS

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Summary

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Summary
• Understand the dependency chain in your Microsoft applications
• Build your migration plan around the dependency chain
• Know how Microsoft licensing on AWS works and plan accordingly

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