Module 9: Migration and Innovation

Question 1

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Answer 1

Organizes guidance into six areas of focus called Perspectives which address distinct responsibilities.

Question 2

Business Perspective

Answer 2

Ensures that IT aligns with business needs and that IT investments link to key business results.

Question 3

People Perspective

Answer 3

Supports development of an organization-wide change management strategy for successful cloud adoption.

Question 4

Governance Perspective

Answer 4

• Focuses on the skills and processes to align IT strategy with business strategy.
• Ensures that you maximize the business value and minimize risks.

Question 5

Platform Perspective

Answer 5

Includes principles and patterns for implementing new solutions on the cloud, and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud.

Question 6

Security Perspective

Answer 6

Ensures that the organization meets security objectives for visibility, audibility, control, and agility.

Question 7

Operations Perspective

Answer 7

Helps you to enable, run, use, operate, and recover IT workloads to the level agreed upon with your business stakeholders.

Question 8

Rehosting

Answer 8

Involves moving application without changes.

Question 9

Replatforming

Answer 9

• Involves making a few cloud optimizations to realize a tangible benefit.
• Optimization is made without changing the core architecture of the application.

Question 10

Refactoring/Re-Architecting

Answer 10

Involves reimagining how an application is architected and developed by using cloud-native features.

Question 11

Repurchasing

Answer 11

Involves moving from a traditional license to a software-as-a-service model.

Question 12

Retaining

Answer 12

Consists of keeping applications that are critical for the business in the source environment.

Question 13

Retiring

Answer 13

The process of removing applications that are no longer needed.

Question 14

AWS Snow Family

Answer 14

A collection of physical devices that help to physically transport up to exabytes of data into and out of AWS.

Question 15

AWS Snowcone

Answer 15

• A small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device.
• Features 2 CPUs, 4GB of memory, and 8 TB of usable storage.

Question 16

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized

Answer 16

• Well suited for large-scale data migrations and recurring transfer workloads.
• 80 TB of HDD Capacity

Question 17

AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized

Answer 17

• Provides powerful computing resources for use cases.

- 42 TB usable HDD Capacity

Question 18

AWS Snowmobile

Answer 18

• An exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS.
• Transfer up to 100 petabytes of data per snowmobile.