Migrating mainframe workloads on AWS for agility, cost efficiency, and risk mitigation

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Michael Del Rossi
Principal, Head of Cloud Services
The Vanguard Group
Migrating mainframe workloads
on AWS for agility, cost
efficiency, and risk mitigation
Phil de Valence
WW Tech Leader – Mainframe & Legacy
Amazon Web Services

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Financial Services institutions are migrating their mainframe
workloads to AWS in order to…
Reduce costs
Increase agility Mitigate risks

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/accelerating-agility-with-12-attributes-for-mainframe-workloads/
Agile development with CI/CD Integrated development
environment
Knowledge-based
development
Service-enabled and
modular applications
Elasticity with
horizontal scalability
On-demand, immutable,
disposable servers
Choice of compute, data store,
and language
Broad data store access
Pervasive automation Managed and fully-
managed services
Consumption-based pricing Innovation platform
How migrating your mainframe enhances agility

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How migrating your mainframe increases cost efficiency
Consumption-based pricing Business and IT alignment Cost-aware architecture Managed and fully-
managed services
Pervasive automation Cost-optimization services Economies of scale Large vendor ecosystem

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Migrating to AWS reduces risk while increasing benefits
Skill shortage
Vendor lock-in
Isolated silos
Limited capacity
Centralized outages
Escalating costs
Slow release cycles
Locked data
Lack of agility
Growing workforce
Portable technology stack
Open service-based architecture
On-demand elastic resources
Global and regional redundancy
Cost efficient architecture
DevOps and CI/CD
Modern broad data access
Vibrant innovation ecosystem
Benefits of mainframe migration
Mainframe risks

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Architecture for agility, cost efficiency, and risk mitigation
DevOps and CI/CD
Open service-based
architecture
On-demand elastic
resources
Modern broad
data access
Portable
technology stack
Vibrant innovation
ecosystem
Knowledge-based
development
Integrated Development
Environment
Choice of compute, data
store, and language
Pervasive
automation
Managed
services
Consumption-
based pricing
Pervasive
automation
Global and regional
redundancy
Business and IT
capacity alignment

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Mainframe strangling workload by workload
Horizontal scalability
Modern software stack
Agile architecture
Vertical scalability
Legacy components
Tight coupling
Migrations

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AWS’s approach: Migrate then optimize
• Physical machine
• Monolithic
• Legacy formats
• System automation
• Waterfall
• MSU
Migrate & Modernize Optimize & Innovate
• Elastic compute
• Macroservices
• Relational
• Managed services
• Agile DevOps
• Pay-as-you-go
• Serverless
• Microservices
• Cloud database
• Fully-managed services
• DevSecOps
• Pay for value
AWS Cloud AWS Cloud
Short-term cloud migration & modernization
Current Mainframe Mid-term cloud optimization

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Learn more
• AWS re:Invent 2020: Mainframe workloads’ fast track to agility (detailed approach)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlif7VSUv8
• Accelerating Agility with 12 Attributes for Mainframe Workloads
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/accelerating-agility-with-12-attributes-for-mainframe-workloads/
• Demystifying Legacy Migration Options to the AWS Cloud
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/demystifying-legacy-migration-options-to-the-aws-cloud/
• Mainframe Modernization with AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe/
• Mainframe to AWS customer stories and tools
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/?awsf.blog-master-category=category%23mainframe-and-legacy
• Transitioning Mainframe Workloads into Agile Services with AWS and Micro Focus
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/transitioning-mainframe-workloads-into-agile-services-with-aws-and-micro-focus/
• Automated Refactoring from Mainframe to Serverless Functions and Containers with Blu Age
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/automated-refactoring-from-mainframe-to-serverless-functions-and-containers-with-blu-age/

10. A conversation with The Vanguard Group

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Who is The Vanguard Group?
Vanguard is
one of the
world’s largest
investment
management
companies
We serve 30 million
investors
in ~170 countries
We manage seven
trillion dollars in
investments…
in hundreds of
low-cost funds
Every day, our
portfolio managers
invest up to two
billion new dollars
We have more
than 17,000 crew
members, as we call
our employees, in
keeping with our
nautical theme
30
million
Our purpose:
“To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly,
and to give them the best chance for investment success.”

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Vanguard’s cloud journey
Committed
to public
cloud
2015
“Web Apps”
MVC
2016 2017
New
development
in cloud and
“Analytics”
MVC
2018
Web &
Analytics
Expansion
2019
Core
website
capabilities
2020+
Portfolio
Modernization

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