Join our upcoming webinar with AWS, Six Nines, and NRC Health to learn how NRC Health migrated their 20-year-old Microsoft application to the cloud, reducing the risk of downtime and long change management windows.

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Architect Your Legacy
Microsoft Apps into
Modern Cloud Workloads
Zlatan Dzinic, Partner SolutionsArchitect,Amazon Web Services,Inc.
Eric Terrell, Directorof Service Delivery,Six NinesIT, Inc.
John Dorn, Lead SystemsArchitect,NRC Health,Inc.
June 28, 2018
10:00 AM PDT

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Windows Workloads on Amazon
ElasticCompute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Zlatan Dzinic, Partner SolutionsArchitect,Amazon Web Services,Inc.

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Our solution
Retiringtechnical debt Acceleratingdigital
transformation
Loweringcosts

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Innovation: Windows workloads on Amazon Web
Services (AWS)
CustomerAdoption
2008 Today
WS 2008 & SQL Server2008
Visual Studio Toolkit
MSFT SCOM plug-in release
AWS Directory Service
EC2 Dedicated Hosts (BYOL)
MSFT SharePoint 2016 (Marketplace)
WS 2008 R2 SQL Server2008 R2
WS 2003
.NET SDK
MSFT SCVMM Plug-in
WS 2012 & SQL Server2012
AWS Tools for PowerShell
Amazon RDS adds SQL Server
EC2 Run Command
EC2 Systems Manager
WS & SQL 2016
EC2 Dedicated Instances (BYOL)
▪ 41 instance type,10 instance families
▪ 31 differentAMIsfor Windowsworkloads
▪ 300 differentWindowsISV listingsinAWS
marketplace
.NET on Lambda
SAP instance on AWS 2012

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Accelerate Innovation Reduce costs Increase agility
Improve uptime and
performance
Tap intothe extensive AWS
Partner Network(APN)
Benefits of running Microsoft workloads on AWS

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▪ Focus on deliveringcustomervalue instead oftime-
consuminghardware maintenance
▪ Access to the broad and deep set of cloud services to
transform yourbusiness model
▪ Provision resources on-demandand reduce lengthy
procurement and deployment cycles
▪ Removebarriers such as risk, upfront cost,and
complexityaroundintegratingnewtechnologies like
the Internet ofThings (IoT) and machine learning
Our technology challenges

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▪ Pay onlyfor what you need and replace CapEx with
OpEx
▪ Bring yourexistingMicrosoft software licenses
▪ Continue to derivevalue from existinginvestments
as part of a hybrid architecture
▪ Use Amazon EC2Reserved Instances to saveup to
70% off of the on-demand price
▪ Improveapplication performance without hardware
refresh costs
Reduce costs

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▪ Reduce lengthyprocurement and development cycles
▪ Advance new business opportunitiesin geographic
regions you don’t currentlyoperate in byleveraging
the AWS global infrastructure
▪ Improvedeveloper productivitybyimplementing
DevOps processes such as CI/CD, microservices,
infrastructure as code, logging and monitoring,
platform-as-a-service, and version control
Increase agility

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▪ Establishmulti-synchronous geographicredundancy
▪ Leverage a varietyof Amazon EC2 instance types,
each optimized to supportthe needs of your target
workload
▪ Immediatelyrespondto changingresource
requirements usingAWSAuto Scalingand ElasticLoad
Balancing
▪ Place applications and data in AWSAvailabilityZones
near end users to reduce latency
Improve uptime and performance

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▪ Engage with one of the tens of thousands ofAWS
Partner Network (APN) Consultingand Technology
Partners
▪ Develop a Windows migration strategyleveragingan
APN ConsultingPartner that holdsthe Microsoft
Workload Competency
▪ Leverage the software your organization is already
familiarwith and try out new technologysolutions
usingindependent software vendors (ISVs)found in
AWS Marketplace
Tap into the extensive AWS Partner Network (APN)

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▪ Current and legacy versions available from
AWS Marketplace or AWS Management
Console
▪ License costs includedinAWS bill
▪ AWS handles license compliance
Licensing options on AWS
License included:
▪ Canuse License Mobility through
Software AssuranceorAmazonEC2
DedicatedHosts
▪ Extendlicense investments to the cloud
and pay only forAWS services you
consume
▪ Youare responsible forlicense
compliance
Bring yourown licenses:

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Modernizing Your Legacy
Microsoft Applications
and Data
Six Nines
Eric Terrell, Managing Director,Six NinesIT, Inc.

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The value Six Nines brings to
Microsoft workloads on AWS
▪ Is one of the first companies to become an APN ConsultingPartner
▪ Brings knowledge of Microsoft workloads and best practices to the table to provide an
integrated experience forcustomers
▪ Helps organizations benefitfromthe flexibilityand resiliencyofAWS while leveraging
familiarMicrosoft workloads such as Microsoft SQL, Windows Server, Active Directory,
Exchange,and SharePoint
▪ Promotes agilityand securityas organizationsdesign,deploy,and support fullyintegrated
Microsoft solutions on AWS
Six Nines:

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Microsoft workloads – strengths and key offerings
Windows Migration,Refactoring,and
Cloud NativeResources
Foundational
“Table Stakes”
Windows Workloads Windows Migration
App Modernization
Windows Continuous
Integration/Continuous
Development (CI/CD)
DevOps Automation
Cloud Architecture
& Migration
Six Nines
Cloud CIO

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DevOps
We help customers develop CI/CD pipelines
based on core DevOps, security, and automation

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Key offering - DevOps

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Migration
We leverage a proven AWS methodology to
help customers migrate Microsoft workloads
to AWS responsibly

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Planning – AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
AWS CAF
Six NinesCloud
Reference Architecture
Customer’s
BusinessPriorities
& KeyUse Cases
Six Nines
Best Practices
Governance, Risk,
and Compliance
Requirements
CloudAdoptionStrategy
Workload Migration
Plan(s)
Six NinesOperations
Framework

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Migration cutover methods
Application Portfolio Rationalization
Network Mapping
Cost Analysis
Lift & Shift
Right-size
Re-Architect for Scalability
Automate, Automate, Automate

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ApplicationModernization
Taking advantage of DevOps and application lifecycle
management methodologies

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Applicationmodernization– architectureconsiderations
▪ Scale out
▪ Avoidsharedstate
▪ Right-size,scale up/down
▪ Avoidsharedstate
▪ Leverage caching
▪ Store sessionsinkey/value stores
AWS Auto
Scaling

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Common types of architecture
Multi-AZ always-on
Availability Group
Serverless architecture
is also an option

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CI/CD Pipeline
Pull source code from:
▪ AWS CodeCommit
▪ Amazon SimpleStorageService
(Amazon S3)
▪ GitHub
Build with:
▪ AWS CodeBuild
▪ Jenkins
▪ SolanoCI
▪ TeamCity
Test with:
▪ Apica
▪ BlazeMeter
▪ GhostInspector
▪ HPEStormRunner Load
▪ Runscope
Deploy with:
▪ AWS CodeDeploy
▪ AWS ElasticBeanstalk
▪ AWS OpsWorksStacks
▪ AWS CloudFormation
▪ Xebia Lab

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Multi-tenant architecture considerations
▪ Database tenancy
▪ Current: Legacy DB isoftena Silo
▪ Future:ConsiderBridge or Pool
▪ Bridge or Pool wouldenable software license
reductions andflexibility
▪ Flexible user models will fit better in Bridge
orPool

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Windows pipeline
Create application
Specifydeploymentgroup
Specifydeploymentconfiguration
Upload revision
Deploy
Check results
Redeployas needed

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How Six Nines Helped NRC Health
Migrate Their Microsoft
Applicationto AWS
John Dorn, Lead SystemsArchitect,NRC Health,Inc.

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NRC Health at a glance
▪ 35 years inhealthcare,20 years publicly traded
▪ 26 of top30 health systems
▪ 25 million+ consumer voices annually
▪ 5,000,000+ patient ratings published

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Challenges
▪ Legacy Windows-based.NET andMicrosoft
SQL applicationmanually built on a traditional
hardware stack
▪ Existingapplicationlackedthe automation
and CI/CD pipeline NRC Healthwas lookingfor

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Solution
▪ Migratedthe legacy applicationto AWS
▪ Automatedthe deployment pipeline using
TeamCity andOctopus
▪ Implementeda single, parameterizedAWS
CloudFormationtemplate to buildthe test,
staging, and productionenvironments
▪ Storedall sensitive data and credentials in
AWS Systems Manager
▪ AmazonEC2
▪ Application Load Balancer
▪ AWS Auto Scaling
▪ AmazonVirtual PrivateCloud (Amazon VPC)
▪ AWS CloudFormation
▪ AmazonS3
▪ AWS Systems Manager
▪ AWS Key Management Service(AWS KMS)
▪ AmazonCloudWatch Events
▪ AWS Lambda
▪ AWS DirectoryService (for setting up AD Connector)
AWS services usedSix Nines

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Automation and repeatability
▪ Active Directory Connector andSystems Manager (SSM)documents
– Allows machines to join NRCHealth’scorporatedomain and automaticallyplace
them in the correct organizationalunits(OUs)
▪ AWS CloudFormationtemplates
– Directsspecific types of machines into theright OUstructures and AD Group
Memberships
– Permits existing group policy objects (GPOs) used to configure and secure
machines
– Ensures that allon-premises and Windows on AWS workloads receive the same
centrallymanagedpolicies
▪ AWS CloudWatchtrigger
– Kicks off AWS Lambda scripts upon instance terminationto remove machines from
the domain
– Provides a criticalcomponent to makeAWS Auto Scaling groups of domain joined
instances spin up and down correctlywithout naming conflicts

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Results
▪ MigratedMicrosoft Applicationto an
AWS environment
▪ Automatedthe entire CI/CD pipeline to
launchnew instances andprovisionexisting
instances withthe latest builds

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Automationand Other Considerations
We assessed existing architecture and identified suitable,
modern alternatives for NRC Health

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Amazon ECS Cluster
ECS cluster
ContainerInstances→ Amazon EC2 instances
Task definition
DefinesDockerimages, memory,CPU, etc.
Running tasks
Transitory process
AmazonElastic Container Registry (AmazonECR)
Services
Long-livedprocess
Loadbalancer
AmazonECS registers tasks
Trafficflows to tasks

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Running SQL on AWS
▪ Active Directory – AWSMicrosoft Active
Directory (AD)serves as a resource domainso
users cansign in withSSO using existing
corporatecredentials to AWS services,custom
.NET applications,andmore
▪ AmazonRDS – provides a Managed Database
Service for Microsoft SQL Server
▪ IIS App Servers – run on AmazonEC2
virtualizedmachines
▪ AmazonVPCs – provide isolatedsoftware-
definedinfrastructure

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Optimizing core licensing
Instance Types
Virtual Representation of
Hardware Threads*
Instance Types
Virtual Representation of
Hardware Threads*
x1.32xlarge 128 r3.xlarge 4
x1.16xlarge 64 r3.2xlarge 8
r3.large 4 r3.4xlarge 16
r4.large 4 r3.8xlarge 32
r4.xlarge 4 i2.xlarge 4
r4.2xlarge 8 i2.2xlarge 8
r4.4xlarge 16 i2.4xlarge 16
r4.8xlarge 32 i2.8xlarge 32
r4.16xlarge 64
*Because the current versionof the
Microsoft ProductTerms requires a
minimum of fourlicenses per Virtual
OperatingSystemEnvironment (OSE),this
table specifies a minimum of fourvirtual
representations of hardware threads
(even if the instance type has fewer
threads).

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Thank You
Questions & Answers
Zlatan Dzinic,Partner SolutionsArchitect,Amazon Web Services,Inc.
Eric Terrell, Directorof Service Delivery,Six NinesIT, Inc.
John Dorn, Lead SystemsArchitect,NRC Health,Inc.