e-Zest boasts to have organized a full day seminar on ‘cloud roadmap for enterprises’ on October 9 ‘ 2013 at Mumbai, in partnership with AWS India. More than 50 participants gained AWS cloud overview through presentations made by Parijat Mishra and Ashish Gupta.

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Cloud Roadmap
for Enterprise
Presented by
Ashish Gupta
President – Technology
: @eZest

2. The cloud computing promise
No upfront capital
expense
Low cost Pay only for what you
use
Self-service
infrastructure
Easily scale up and
down
Improve agility and
time-to-market
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3. What this Promise of cloud means for us?
• Businesses would love to have their applications running in AWS cloud
– This means that our CIOs, CTOs, IT Managers need to
– Understand what is Cloud/ AWS
– Create the Cloud Adoption Roadmap
– Support & maintain all applications in Cloud
– For Future Applications:
– Architect the applications that can run effectively on cloud
– Develop the applications capable of running elastically on AWS
– For existing applications in Data Center,
– Migrate existing applications on cloud
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4. Quick glace @ Setting up a Cloud Roadmap
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Realize the need for
cloud
Plan for setting up
AWS cloud as an
extension to your
Data Center
Setup the structure
of cloud as VPC
Setup the
management system
in VPC
Port/ migrate/ build
applications on VPC
Leverage the power
of AWS cloud

5. Cloud need realization
• For Startups
– No Capital investment
– High scalability promise
– New applications can be built for cloud
• For Enterprises
– Quick planning & ability to change the plan
– Ease of migration of discrete solutions on cloud
– Networking and network monitoring
– Security, monitoring and performance management
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Startups & enterprises though have different needs and concerns, Cloud
Adoption is the solution!

6. Extend your Data Center to cloud
• Setup the secured connectivity mechanism (VPN site to site
connectivity)
• Visualize cloud as the cushion for your variable computing
needs
• Before expanding/ replenishing Data Center, evaluate the
cloud suitability
• Increase the familiarity with AWS services and billing
• Look out ways for storing your data securely on cloud
• Consider cloud for DR and BCP purpose
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50% of CIOs say by 2017 more than half of business on public cloud: Gartner

7. Set-up VPC first time right
• Decide on the VPC CIDR
• Plan for the subnets based on its intended usage
• Plan for the DMZ, private and public subnets
• Set-up the routes in routing Tables
• Define the NACLs for subnets
• Set-up the naming conventions and Tags for AWS resources
• Finalize the suitability of operating systems and services
inside VPC
• Create the reference architecture
• Create architectural guidelines for applications inside VPC
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8. Setup ‘The Management System’ in VPC
• Set-up security management practices
– Hardening practices of
– Choices of firewall, IPS, antivirus and ISMS
– External party access policy
– Disaster recovery and business continuity
• Log aggregation and management
– OS log aggregation
– Server log aggregation
– Application log aggregation
– Selection of log aggregation tool
• Time synchronization of servers in
cloud and with Data center servers
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• ITSM tracking
– Cloud assets changes tracking
– User request, Incidents, Cloud change
management
– Support SLA Mgmt & escalation procedures
• Cloud performance management
– Cloud performance matrices
– Application availability matrices
– Application performance management
matrices
• Mail relays, Internet connectivity
• Cloud cost management

9. Applications in VPC
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CloudStrategy
New Applications
Build for cloud
Build cloud ready
Build Non-cloud Apps
Existing
Applications
“No Brainer to Move
Apps”
Planned phased
migration
Non-mover Apps
Existing Data/
Processes
Cold storage back-up (
DR Purpose)
Hot back-up, Zero
downtime (BCP)
Extension of Datacenter
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
• New Apps:
– Building new applications in a non-cloud manner is suicidal!
– If applications are public facing ( out of organization premises use cases),
then strongly consider cloud.
– Not all application are suitable for moving on cloud

10. • Application refactoring
• Application ArchitectureYour
App
• Choice of Services
• Its CustomizationApp Services
• Services configuration
• Service provisioningAWS PaaS
• Right selection
• Right sizingAWS IaaS
Leverage the power of AWS Cloud
• Refactoring in code to implement elasticity and
performance.
• Take advantage of some of the other advanced AWS
features and services:
– Auto Scaling Service
– Amazon CloudFront
– Amazon Elastic MapReduce
– Amazon elasticache
– CloudSearch
– dynamoDB
– SQS, SWF
• Automate processes to maintain and manage
applications using tools like puppet or chef.
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