AWS re:Invent 2016

Many organizations rely on a TCO calculation to build a business case for migration to the Cloud. Unfortunately, this approach overlooks organizational readiness and wider economic factors, such as the total cost and the benefits of migration. This session provides executives with a toolkit for measuring readiness and developing a compelling business case.

Fortune 500 companies are increasingly using cloud services to run enterprise workloads to improve security, increase agility, and enable scale. Learn how OpenEye is running their AWS-native platform and workflow engine to support collaboration and data sharing at large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer. In this session, OpenEye will share cloud best practiced around security controls, cross-departmental collaboration across the enterprise, and agility at scale. Attendees will gain practical tips for using AWS in the enterprise and healthcare industries.

As enterprises seek to fully realize the scalability, availability, security, and agility of cloud computing, many are learning that they must migrate core business applications, such finance and human resource systems, not just public-facing websites. The University of Arizona shares how they addressed the challenge of creating a more efficient and agile IT operation. After initial success in migrating their Research Administration system, UA became the first major university to migrate their PeopleSoft application environments—Learning (EL), Human Resources (HR), and Student (SA)—to AWS. Learn about the university's enterprise migration roadmap, lessons learned, plans and budgets, and the tools available to support major enterprise migrations. See how to create a roadmap to cloud computing, transform application development, deploy mission-critical workloads at scale, and retrain staff.

After launching several thousand EC2 instances in the cloud, we've learned that the key to running an IT fleet successfully on AWS is enforcing operational and economic discipline. As AWS service consumption grows, operational costs and overhead shouldn't grow linearly. Instead, IT should encourage new tenants that migrate from data centers to AWS to slowly shift toward a self-service delivery model and adopt the DevOps operations model. Creating and offering an AWS Cloud operations service catalog enables organizations to efficiently take full advantage of AWS' flexibility and modularity. T-Mobile, whose journey to AWS Cloud management started more than 2 years ago, uses a service catalog to enforce operational discipline in the Cloud. Their catalog is custom crafted for each Cloud-based IT workload. This session provides insight into the AWS Cloud operations strategy and its transformation, the creation of a Cloud operations service catalog, and how this approach supports reliable engineering on AWS. S

Enterprises rely on messaging to integrate services and applications and to exchange information critical to running their business. However, managing and operating dedicated message-oriented middleware and underlying infrastructure creates costly overhead and can compromise reliability. In this session, enterprise architects and developers learn how to improve scalability, availability, and operational efficiency by migrating on-premises messaging middleware to a managed cloud service using Amazon SQS. Hear how Capital One is using SQS to migrate several core banking applications to the cloud to ensure high availability and cost efficiency. We also share some exciting new SQS features that allow even more workloads to take advantage of the cloud.

Data center migrations are often long and complex projects that involve thousands of servers. Without automated tools, these migrations can consume hundreds of hours. The recently launched AWS Server Migration Service speeds and simplifies the migration of on-premises servers to the AWS Cloud. SMS automates incremental replication of live server volumes, speeding up the migration process and significantly reducing the manual tasks required for server migration. This session for IT managers introduces key features and benefits of SMS, and includes a demo of the SMS end-to-end workflow.

For many large enterprises, gathering data on your applications and developing a detailed business case for an all-in migration to AWS can be a time consuming activity. Instead of waiting on a full analysis to be completed, a global healthcare company decided to take a shortcut by reinventing the portfolio assessment process in a brilliantly simple manner. This new streamlined approach enabled them to immediately take advantage of the increased speed and innovative capabilities of AWS. In this session, IT directors and enterprise architects can learn these techniques to quickly identify which of their own applications fit cloud-friendly patterns; including, how to build a prioritized and multi-threaded migration queue that maximizes velocity and business value.

Ticketmaster will share their playbill to managing and optimizing their AWS deployment in real-time. Learn how this ticket-sales giant was able to deploy, train and obtain utilization of the Cloudyn solution for their significant AWS deployment - and get rapid results.

As your Reserved Instance portfolio grows, tracking your ROI becomes more critical. You’ll need the right tools, metrics, and strategies in place to make sure you’re maximizing RI savings and minimizing unused RI hours.

Learn how to create a compelling business case for a large-scale migration to AWS. We present a framework and tools for creating your business case, and guidelines for using AWS services to maximize value and optimize cost for migrations to the AWS Cloud. Learn a new way of thinking about cost that includes automation, new technologies, organizational change, and other factors.