Planning datacenter migrations can involve thousands of workloads and tens of thousands of servers and are often deeply interdependent. Application discovery and dependency mapping are important early first steps in the migration process, but difficult to perform at scale due to the lack of automated tools. AWS Application Discovery Service (AWS ADS) is a new service (COMING SOON) that automatically identifies on-premises applications and dependencies, and baselines application health and performance to help plan your application migration to AWS quickly and reliably. This talk introduces the new Application Discovery Service capabilities for streamlining data center and large scale migrations to AWS. Will discuss how ADS works together with your existing on-premises infrastructure to inventory applications and identify dependencies. We will discuss how you can query ADS to examine the applications, their attributes, and dependencies, and then use this information to help reduce the time, cost, and risk of migrating applications to AWS by natively integrating with AWS services designed to simplify application monitoring and management. Learning Objectives: • Planning for cloud migration – feedback from customers and challenges • Value of AWS Application Discovery Service • How customers can sign up for and use the service • How SI and ISV partners can engage with AWS and extend the value of their offerings to customers

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Nirav Kothari, Principal Consultant
AWS Professional Services
May 25, 2016
AWS Application Discovery Service

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Agenda
How customers approach cloud migration today
What customers have told us
Coming soon: AWS Application Discovery Service

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How AWS customers are migrating
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Application 3 Application 3
Application 2 Application 2
Application 1 Application 1
Existing
IT estate
evaluation
Planning
and
discovery
Operation
Strategy Plan Build Run
Application
design
Migration and
validation

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What customers have told us:
Cloud migrations can be complex and costly
 Data center migrations can involve thousands of workloads and tens
of thousands of servers
 They can involve complex application interdependencies that are
poorly understood
 Determining best path of legacy applications is challenging
 Identifying application inventory and dependencies manually slows
down migration process

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Servicesfrom
AWSecosystem
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS
Application
Discovery
Service
AWS
Config
Innovations to accelerate cloud migration
Strategy Plan Build Run
Application 3
Application 2
Application 1
Existing
IT estate
evaluation
Planning and
discovery Operation
AWS Database
Migration Service
Amazon EC2 VM
AWS Import/Export
Application
design
Migration and
validation
Application 3
Application 2
Application 1

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AWS Application Discovery Service
streamlines planning for your cloud migration

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AWS Application Discovery Service
Automate data center application discovery
Identify application
Inventory
Map application
dependencies
Baseline system and
process performance

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AWS Application Discovery Service
Overview
 Agents deployed on source hosts
 Windows & Linux support
 Capture system inventory, performance,
and dependencies
 Capture and store secured data to AWS
 API access to discovered assets
 Output to CSV or XML
 Can be imported into a third-party
migration or visualization tool
Discovery
Agents Discovery DB
AWS Application
Discovery Service
On-premises data center
Encrypted
data
Internet

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 Binaries deployed using customer’s existing software management
tools
 Support for Windows and Linux hosts
 Very small footprint and minimal overhead
 Offline mode to inspect captured data
 Proxy agnostic, needs outbound 443 connection only
AWS Application Discovery Service
Discovery Agent

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Infrastructure and application level information captured from hosts
Inventory of installed software applications
Information about running applications and processes
 User information, group information, list of kernel modules, operation systems information
System and process performance, and resource utilization
 CPU and memory usage, all create and stop process events, disk and network
Track network activity on a server to infer dependencies
 TCP/UDP listening ports (with processes), TCP v4/v6 connections, NIC information
AWS Application Discovery Service
Data capture capabilities

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Public API operations to manage and consume the service
 ListConfigurationItem—search discovered hosts
 GetConfigurationAttributes—describe a discovered host
 ExportConfiguration—ability to export the discovery data as CSV
 Create/Delete Tags—group servers and plan migrations
AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDK utility to access the
API operations
Offline processing and visualization
AWS Application Discovery Service
Features

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A migration example
Prepare for a LAMP stack for migration
Application Discovery Service views dependencies of a LAMP stack
 Workloads comprised of Apache, MySQL, and PHP servers
 Depends on infrastructure services: LDAP, hardware load balancers, DHCP server, DNS server, Syslog
server
 Analyze dependencies and right-size using API operations, import to Microsoft Excel
SI Partner or AWS Professional Services would:
 Create a suitable VPC and subnet on AWS to house application
 Establish a connection by AWS Direct Connect from on-premises to AWS Region
 Plan out the migration
 Apache and PHP VMs => Amazon EC2
 Hardware LB => Elastic Load Balancing
 MySQL => Amazon RDS
 DNS => Amazon Route 53
 LDAP and log servers stay on-premises (for other on-premises applications)

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Inventory by application type

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A migration example:
How to use the CLI to prepare for a LAMP stack

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Search for dependent hosts

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Plan EC2 resource provisioning

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Available through AWS Professional Services consultants
or SI partners
 Visit service detail page on the AWS marketing website
 Fill the form to sign up for beta program
 We will get you in touch with AWS Professional Services consultant or SI partner
Availability

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Visualization

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Visualization

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Provides a set of public API operations and open data
formats, making it easy to integrate or coexist with other tools
Integrates with:
 Discovery tools that can publish information
 Migration tools that leverage the discovered assets
 Existing migration frameworks
AWS Application Discovery Service
Integration with cloud migration tools

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Thank you