Migrating to the AWS GovCloud with Kevin Cruz and Pargat Bajwa
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English - March 16, 2020 20:39 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTechnology Business agile cloud contracting development devops govcon smallbusiness technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When Kevin first heard about his client’s desire to vacate the DHS Data Center and move to the AWS GovCloud, he thought it was an April Fool’s Day joke based on the time frames discussed. But the team succeed in migrating a large suite of mission-critical systems to the target environment in under 9 months.
Kevin Cruz and Pargat Bajwa discuss their experience and lessons learned from this effort:
Working with remote locations The importance of upfront analysis work and the discovery phase and understanding architecture and interfaces Making various determinations such as what systems to migrate first and when to replatform vs lift and shift Learning the new technologies and tools Modernizing legacy applications to take advantage of the cloud environment How this migration effort contributed to breaking down silos Planning complex migrations around operational activities and minimizing downtime Key considerations before undertaking a large cloud migrationContact John and Adam at [email protected] with your questions for future episodes.
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