Migration and Innovation Flashcards
What are 6 areas of focus in the AWS Cloud Migration Framework?
business capabilities:
1. business
2. people
3. governance
technical capabilities
4. platform
5. security
6. operations
What is included in the Business area of the CMF?
- 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
Roles in the Business area of the CMF
business managers
finance managers
strategy stakeholders
budget owners
What is included in the People area of the CMF?
- evaluate organizational structures and roles
- specify new skill and process requirements
- set training, staffing priorities
Roles in the People area of the CMF
HR
staffing
people managers
What is included in the Governance area of the CMF?
how to update staff skills and processes necessary to ensure business governance in the cloud
Roles in the Governance area of the CMF
CIO
program managers
enterprise architects
business managers
portfolio managers
What is included in the Platform area of the CMF?
- understand structure of IT systems and their relationships
- describe architecture of the target state environment
Roles in the Platorm area of the CMF
CTO
IT managers
solutions architects
What is included in the Security area of the CMF?
ensure that security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, agility are met
Roles in the Security area of the CMF
CISO
IT security managers
IT security analysts
What is included in the Operations area of the CMF?
- define d2d, y2y, q2q business
- enable, run, use, operate, recover IT workloads to the level agreed on with the stakeholders
Roles in the Operations area of the CMF
IT ops managers
IT support managers
Six migration strategies
- rehost
- replatform
- retire
- retain
- repurchase
- refactor/re-architect
Rehosting
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
Replatforming
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
Retiring
migration strategy where obsolete applications are disabled (10-20% app porfolio)
Retaining
migration strategy for apps which are soon to be deprecated. It doesn’t make sense to migrate.
Repurchasing
Migration strategy where legacy software vendors are abandoned and model is changed from license to SaaS.
Higher upfront cost.
Refactoring / Re-architecturing
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.
What are devices in the AWS Snow family?
- AWS Snowcone
- AWS Snowball Edge
- AWS Snowmobile
Features of AWS Snowcone
- 8TB storage
- 2 CPUs
- 4GB memory
- contains edge computing
- is shipped both ways
- data are usually copied to Amazon S3 bucket
AWS Snowcone use cases
- data analytics
- video libraries
- image collections
- backups
- tape replacement data
Types of AWS Snowball Edge devices
compute optimized and storage optimized
Features of the compute optimized Snowball Edge
- 42TB HDD
- 7.68TB NvMe SSD
- 52 vCPUs
- 208 GiB memory
Compute optimized Snowball Edge use cases
machine learning
video analysis
analytics
Features of the storage optimized Snowball Edge
- 80TB HDD
- 1TB SSD
- 40 vCPUs
- 80GiB memory
Storage optimized Snowball Edge use cases
large-scale data migrations
recurring transfer workloads
Features of AWS Snowmobile
- a container with a truck
- 100PB
- it appears as NAS (Network Attached Storage)
- 27 surveillance cameras
- security vehicle
- fire suppression
- GPS tracking
- temperature controlled
AWS Snowmobile use cases
- large migrations
- data center shutdowns
Features and uses of the Snowball Edge
- 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
What is Amazon SageMaker used for?
deploy trained models or build models
What is Amazon A2I?
Augmented AI
What is Amazon Lex used for?
helps building chatbots
heart of Alexa
What is Amazon Textract used for?
extract text and data from documents (speech to text)
What is Aws DeepRacer used for?
Reinforcement learning
What is Amazon Comprehent used for?
Discovering patterns
What is AWS Ground Station used for?
pay for satellite time
