This document discusses strategic approaches to migrating enterprise applications to AWS. It presents three approaches: Lift and Shift, which involves pushing existing hardware to AWS with minimal transformation; Build it and Pull, a demand-driven approach where user teams migrate apps; and a 2-Step approach that combines pushing to a holding zone then pulling to a future state. It also discusses Qantas' experience migrating applications to AWS, how they created a migration strategy and capability, partnered with Sourced Group, and achieved results like 90% lower infrastructure costs and 100% uptime of migrated components.

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Strategic Approaches to AWS Enterprise
Application Migration
George Watts
AWS Professional Services

2. Business Value of Information
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What does the ‘business value’ of migrating to the cloud actually mean?
Cost
Utility of information
Capability Management

3. Lift & Shift (Push)
Push existing
hardware to
AWS
• Migration
Automation
• Least
Transformation
Cost
• Quick cost
results
• Performance
Risk
• Limit Capability
& Management
Benefits

4. Build it and they will come (Pull)
Demand driven
migration by
user teams
• Lowest risk
• User Ownership
• Highest benefits
to apps able to
migrate
• Lower short term
cost payoff
• Risk of app silos
• Requires
Transformation
effort

5. 2-Step (Push then Pull)
Push to a
holding zone,
Pull to future
state
• Gets business
and app buy-in
for Push
strategy
• Highest benefits
to most
applications
• Highest programme
cost
• Production support
only ready after
second step

7. Case Study : Qantas
Jessica Lin
Applications Centre of Excellence
Qantas

8. The Qantas Vision for
Application Management

9. Why did Qantas need to change?
Need to
Refresh
Need to
Innovate
Corporate
Culture
Consider the cost of not changing…

10. Need for Speed
Ability to
Release
Ability to Fail Ability to TestAbility to Scale
Transform the value of the information the business already has…

11. Need for Automation
Business
Enablement
Risk Mitigation
Quality
Assurance
The enabler to turn business requirements into reality

12. Creating the migration strategy
Application
Centric Platform
Challenge
Assumptions
Demonstrate
Business Value

13. Creating a Migration Capability
People with the
right skills &
desire to
change
User workflows
built around
automation &
iteration
Cloud-friendly
programmatic
tooling

14. Key Partner : Sourced Group
Role evolution
over time
Need for a
Trusted Cloud
Advisor
Partner
Selection

15. The Qantas.com Migration Process
Moving
application
components
Managing the
Hybrid
Testing the
migration

16. The Results
90% reduction
in Infrastructure
Costs
100% Uptime
components
Complete Visibility
• Cost
• Application
Health
• Supplier
Activities
10/20
microservices
migrated