Cloud Strategy and Vision: AWS

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Cloud Strategy and Vision:

AWS
2019 Oct 07
AGENDA

• What do we mean by “cloud”?
• AWS Distributed Approach
• AWS 1.0 - Enterprise Baby Steps
• AWS 2.0 – Secure Enterprise Cloud
• Future State: Campus-facing services
• Roadmap
WHAT DOES “CLOUD” MEAN?

On-demand I can get computer resources (server, storage, database,
self-service etc.) directly and automatically from the cloud provider
Broad network I can get to those resources from almost any device as
access long as I have a network connection
Resource My resources are like an apartment in a larger complex
pooling
Rapid elasticity My resources scale up and out without waiting on

hardware or software to arrive
Measured I get billed for what I use (“pay by the drink”)
service
COMPARISON: ON-PREMISE AND AWS
ON-PREMISE AWS

Fixed, predictable costs Variable costs, bought
bought in bulk as needed
Can take some time to New resources on-

acquire new resources demand
Staff required to Cloud provider

maintain data center manages data center
facilities and hardware and hardware
New features slow to New features come

roll out, timetable under out rapidly, timetable
our control out of our control
AWS DISTRIBUTED APPROACH

OBJECTIVE
Experiment
and learn

Web
servers
Internet-
Single
Test & Campus- facing
developme facing apps with
server
nt systems
applicati
ons
databases
Toe in the Wading in The Deep

Water Further End

What We Gained Obstacles Discovered Lessons Learned
• Agility - Quick to acquire, • Billing - Separate invoice for • Consolidate and simplify
build and deliver each account, no controls billing
• Knowledge - Basic cloud • Opacity - No consolidated • Develop common
experience building cloud- view of performance and standards, practices and
native applications availability tools
• Confidence – This may • Inconsistency – Different • Create shared services
work for the enterprise tools and practices used by once and reuse them
applications managed by each team • Key skill missing:
OIT • Waste – Everyone architecting the AWS
reinvented the same environment
foundational services
AWS 1.0

OBJECTIVES
Standardization Security Visibility Efficiency Migration

AWS 1.0 Three-Phased Approach

Phase 1 – Cloud Phase 2 – Lift and Phase 3 – Ramp
Environment Setup Shift Up
• Small cloud • Create basic • Create advanced

team shared services shared services
• Master account • Focus on cloud- • Higher
structure ready complexity
• Virtual Private applications applications
Clouds (VPCs) • Incorporate • Higher risk data
• Employ resiliency and • Reduce on-
automation disaster recovery premise
through cloud- • Low effort dependencies
friendly tools migrations • High effort
• Meet low to migrations
moderate risk
security
requirements
using on-
premise tools &
practices
AWS 1.0 Three-Phased Approach

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Phase 1 – Cloud Phase 2 – Lift and K E Phase 3 – Ramp
Environment Setup Shift O C Up
BL
• Master account • Create basic • Create advanced
structure shared services shared services
• Virtual Private • Focus on cloud- • Higher
Clouds (VPCs) ready complexity
• Employ applications applications
automation • Incorporate • Higher risk data
through cloud- resiliency and • Reduce on-
friendly tools disaster recovery premise
• Meet low to • Low effort dependencies
moderate risk migrations • High effort
security migrations
requirements
using on-
premise tools &
practices
AWS 1.0

What We Gained Obstacles Discovered Lessons Learned
• Consolidated billing and • Most of the existing • Design for broader and
discounts applications are NOT cloud- higher requirements
• Consistency in security ready, low risk and/or easy • Map cloud-native tools to
configurations to migrate requirements
• • The more complex the • Migrate the dependencies
Automated several
operations application, the larger and before the applications
more cross-functional the that rely on them
• Better visibility into team required to migrate it
performance and availability • Take the time to refactor
• Using cloud-unfriendly tools or re-architect
• Experience migrating small compromises agility and applications
applications scalability and creates
• AWS skills need to be
inefficiencies
broadly developed across
• Not yet suitable to offer to the organization
campus as service
AWS 2.0 – BREAKING THROUGH

VISION: TO PUT SECURE, COST-EFFECTIVE, EASY TO USE CLOUD SERVICES IN THE
HANDS OF CAMPUS
Agile, Accelerate Optimize Enhance Create

scalable migrations costs resiliency campus-
security and facing cloud
recovery services
AWS 2.0 – UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Agile, scalable security Accelerate migrations
• Map AWS native tools to security • Move key application dependencies
requirements • Train for cloud across teams
• Build new environment • Create focused cloud team
• Enforce standard security • Restart application migrations
configurations for every new account
created
Enhance resiliency and Optimize costs

redundancy • Joined UC system agreement
• Standardize and validate snapshot • Enhance processes for regular cost
frequency and retention review and rebalancing of resources
• Multiple availability zones and/or • Refactor or re-architect applications
regions through migration process
• Disaster recovery by design and
annual testing
FUTURE STATE: CAMPUS-FACING SERVICES

Content System Secure Research OIT Managed
Management Administration Environment Services
Web Hosting Virtual Hosting Self-service
Service Foundation
Educational
“AWS vending Pass-through Budgeting and Invoice / billing
materials &
machine” AWS discounts alerting / recharge
documentation
AWS ROADMAP

2019 2020
Initiative Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2021 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Agile, Scalable Design / build / release

Security
Campus-Facing
Service foundation
Cloud Services
Web hosting self-service
Virtual hosting self-service
Secure research environment

Accelerate
Migrations Staff training
Cloud team formation
Migrate key dependencies (identity and core services)
Restart administrative application migrations

Recovery &
Resiliency DR Test 1 DR Test 2
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