Migration and Innovation

Question 1

What are 6 areas of focus in the AWS Cloud Migration Framework?

Answer 1

business capabilities:
1. business
2. people
3. governance
technical capabilities
4. platform
5. security
6. operations

Question 2

What is included in the Business area of the CMF?

Answer 2

• ensures that IT alighs with business needs and that IT investments align with key results
• used to create a strong business case for cloud adoption

Question 3

Roles in the Business area of the CMF

Answer 3

business managers
finance managers
strategy stakeholders
budget owners

Question 4

What is included in the People area of the CMF?

Answer 4

• evaluate organizational structures and roles
• specify new skill and process requirements
• set training, staffing priorities

Question 5

Roles in the People area of the CMF

Answer 5

HR
staffing
people managers

Question 6

What is included in the Governance area of the CMF?

Answer 6

how to update staff skills and processes necessary to ensure business governance in the cloud

Question 7

Roles in the Governance area of the CMF

Answer 7

CIO
program managers
enterprise architects
business managers
portfolio managers

Question 8

What is included in the Platform area of the CMF?

Answer 8

• understand structure of IT systems and their relationships
• describe architecture of the target state environment

Question 9

Roles in the Platorm area of the CMF

Answer 9

CTO
IT managers
solutions architects

Question 10

What is included in the Security area of the CMF?

Answer 10

ensure that security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, agility are met

Question 11

Roles in the Security area of the CMF

Answer 11

CISO
IT security managers
IT security analysts

Question 12

What is included in the Operations area of the CMF?

Answer 12

• define d2d, y2y, q2q business
• enable, run, use, operate, recover IT workloads to the level agreed on with the stakeholders

Question 13

Roles in the Operations area of the CMF

Answer 13

IT ops managers
IT support managers

Question 14

Six migration strategies

Answer 14

• rehost
• replatform
• retire
• retain
• repurchase
• refactor/re-architect

Question 15

Rehosting

Answer 15

migration strategy, lift-and-shift - move apps without changing
- easier at the beginning
- not all benefits of the cloud, but still up to 30% cost savings

Question 16

Replatforming

Answer 16

migration strategy - lift-tinker-and-shift - make a few cloud optimizations without changing the core architecture of the app.
Example: MySQL DB -> RDS MySQL without code changes.
Or MySQL DB -> Aurora

Question 17

Retiring

Answer 17

migration strategy where obsolete applications are disabled (10-20% app porfolio)

Question 18

Retaining

Answer 18

migration strategy for apps which are soon to be deprecated. It doesn’t make sense to migrate.

Question 19

Repurchasing

Answer 19

Migration strategy where legacy software vendors are abandoned and model is changed from license to SaaS.
Higher upfront cost.

Question 20

Refactoring / Re-architecturing

Answer 20

Migration strategy where applications are developed using cloud-native features. Useful where there’s a business need to add features, scale, or improve performance.
Highest initial cost.

Question 21

What are devices in the AWS Snow family?

Answer 21

• AWS Snowcone
• AWS Snowball Edge
• AWS Snowmobile

Question 22

Features of AWS Snowcone

Answer 22

• 8TB storage
• 2 CPUs
• 4GB memory
• contains edge computing
• is shipped both ways
• data are usually copied to Amazon S3 bucket

Question 23

AWS Snowcone use cases

Answer 23

• data analytics
• video libraries
• image collections
• backups
• tape replacement data

Question 24

Types of AWS Snowball Edge devices

Answer 24

compute optimized and storage optimized

Question 25

Features of the compute optimized Snowball Edge

Answer 25

• 42TB HDD
• 7.68TB NvMe SSD
• 52 vCPUs
• 208 GiB memory

Question 26

Compute optimized Snowball Edge use cases

Answer 26

machine learning
video analysis
analytics

Question 27

Features of the storage optimized Snowball Edge

Answer 27

• 80TB HDD
• 1TB SSD
• 40 vCPUs
• 80GiB memory

Question 28

Storage optimized Snowball Edge use cases

Answer 28

large-scale data migrations
recurring transfer workloads

Question 29

Features of AWS Snowmobile

Answer 29

• a container with a truck
• 100PB
• it appears as NAS (Network Attached Storage)
• 27 surveillance cameras
• security vehicle
• fire suppression
• GPS tracking
• temperature controlled

Question 30

AWS Snowmobile use cases

Answer 30

• large migrations
• data center shutdowns

Question 31

Features and uses of the Snowball Edge

Answer 31

• fits into server racks, allows for clustering
• use cases: IOT streams, image compressions, video transcoding, industrial signalling
• usually shipped to remote locations where computing is not easy

Question 32

What is Amazon SageMaker used for?

Answer 32

deploy trained models or build models

Question 33

What is Amazon A2I?

Answer 33

Augmented AI

Question 34

What is Amazon Lex used for?

Answer 34

helps building chatbots
heart of Alexa

Question 35

What is Amazon Textract used for?

Answer 35

extract text and data from documents (speech to text)

Question 36

What is Aws DeepRacer used for?

Answer 36

Reinforcement learning

Question 37

What is Amazon Comprehent used for?

Answer 37

Discovering patterns

Question 38

What is AWS Ground Station used for?

Answer 38

pay for satellite time