Migration & Innovation

Question 1

What are the 6 strategies for Migration?

Answer 1

Rehosting – lift and shift, move onto AWS with no changes to apps

Replatforming – lift, tinker, and shift. Few cloud optimisations with no code changes

Refactoring/Re-architecting – changes to code and changing the app on AWS

Repurchasing – moving from a traditional license to a SaaS model

Retaining – keeping apps in the source environment and not migrating them to AWS

Retiring – removing apps that are no longer needed

Question 2

What is AWS Snow Family Members?

Answer 2

Collection of physical devices that help to physically transport exabytes of data in & out of AWS

AWS Snowcone – up to 8TB of data. E.g. image and video libraries

AWS Snowball (Compute or Storage optimised) – 42TB & 8TB respectively

AWS Snowmobile – 100 petabytes. Ideal for largest migrations and data centre retirements

Question 3

How can you do Innovation with AWS?

Answer 3

Serverless Apps – AWS Lambda. Run code without provisioning servers

AI – Transcribe, Comprehend, Fraud Detector and Lex are AWS services powered by AI

Machine Learning – Amazon SageMaker. Removes complexity of ML development