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Migrating Applications to the Cloud
An Amazon Web Services Case Study
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A HyperStratus White Paper
Table of Contents
A HyperStratus White Paper
www.hyperstratus.com
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
2
Overview of SVEF and Lessonopoly
3
Lessonopoly Architecture
4
Lessonopoly Description
3
Motivation for Considering Cloud Computing
5
Limited System Scalability
5
Limited Storage Scalability
5
Vulnerability to Hardware Failure
5
Cost
6
Evaluating Cloud Computing
6
AWS Architecture
7
Project Migration to AWS
9
Application and System Management
1 3
Application and System Backup
1 5
Lessonopoly AWS TCO
1 6
Scenario 1: Single Server
1 7
Scenario 2: Multi-tier
1 8
Scenario 3: Multi-machine, multi-tier
1 9
Lessonopoly TCO Analysis
2 0
Factors affecting TCO
2 0
Conclusion
2 2
About HyperStratus
2 3
Key Cloud Computing Migration Issues
1 0
Software Licensing
1 0
Dynamic Data Management
1 1

The Silicon Valley Education Foundation serves 13,500 teachers and 260,000
students throughout Santa Clara County, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. To
help teachers collaborate and enable peer learning, SVEF created Lessonopoly, a
Web 2.0 application that offers lesson plan creation, modification, and sharing,
thereby fostering improved education. A key feature of Lessonopoly is its round-the-
clock accessibility, making it easy for teachers to work on lesson plans at their
convenience.

The infrastructure that Lessonopoly was originally deployed upon offers no
redundancy, exposing SVEF to the risk of an extended outage should any hardware
fail. After examining the option of deploying duplicate hardware along with high
availability virtualization, SVEF decided to pursue a different option: moving
Lessonopoly into the cloud.

The application migration was highly successful, with the result of better application
robustness. In addition, monthly hosting charges were reduced by moving the
application into the cloud. This whitepaper discusses the migration process for
Lessonopoly, including:

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Motivations for considering cloud computing
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Technical aspects of the effort
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Key cloud migration issues
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Lessonopoly migration project TCO
Executive Summary
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