AWS Migration, Disaster Recovery & Well-Architected Framework | AWS CLF-C02 Day 20 — Transcript
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- 0:01Hey, welcome to day 20. We are one day
- 0:03away from finishing this entire series.
- 0:05So, let's make today count.
- 0:07Here's the real world story we are
- 0:08covering today.
- 0:10Imagine a company that's been running
- 0:11its own servers in a basement or a data
- 0:13center for the last 10 years.
- 0:16One day, leadership decides we are
- 0:17moving into AWS.
- 0:19That decision opens up a bunch of
- 0:21questions. Like, how do we actually move
- 0:23everything over?
- 0:24Do we just copy-paste it or we redesign
- 0:26it? Once we are in AWS, how do we know
- 0:29we are building things the right way,
- 0:31not just a way?
- 0:32How do we get our whole organization,
- 0:34not just the tech team, ready for this
- 0:35shift? What's this actually going to
- 0:37cost us compared to before? And if
- 0:39something goes wrong, a server fails, a
- 0:41whole data center goes down, how fast
- 0:43can we recover and what's that going to
- 0:45cost us?
- 0:46That's exactly the five things we are
- 0:48covering today. Migration strategy, the
- 0:50well-architected framework, the cloud
- 0:52adoption framework, cloud economics, and
- 0:53disaster recovery. And these all sound
- 0:56like big separate topics, but they are
- 0:58really just five chapters of the same
- 1:00story. A company's journey from we own
- 1:02everything ourselves to we run
- 1:04confidently in the cloud. And quick
- 1:06reassurance before we dive in, none of
- 1:08this requires you to actually configure
- 1:10anything. This is 100% a recognition
- 1:12game for the exam.
- 1:14You just need to know which term matches
- 1:16which situation. Here's how today flows.
- 1:19First, we will cover the strategies
- 1:20companies use to actually move
- 1:22application into AWS. There are seven
- 1:24named approaches, and once you
- 1:26understand the logic behind them, they
- 1:28are easy to remember.
- 1:29Then we will look at the actual AWS tool
- 1:32that help in migration. Because knowing
- 1:34the strategy is one thing, but the exam
- 1:35also wants you to know which specific
- 1:37tool does which specific job.
- 1:40After that, we shift into building it
- 1:41right, the well-architected framework,
- 1:43which is basically AWS official rulebook
- 1:46for good cloud architecture.
- 1:48Right after that, we will cover the
- 1:49cloud adoption framework, which sounds
- 1:51similar but is actually about something
- 1:53completely different. And this mix-up is
- 1:55one of the most exam common traps, so
- 1:57pay close attention there.
- 1:58Then we will recap cloud economics, how
- 2:00the cloud changes the way companies pay
- 2:02for technology.
- 2:03And we will finish with disaster
- 2:04recovery. This we have covered, I guess,
- 2:06in previous videos, but we will see that
- 2:08again. Uh we will see what happens when
- 2:10things go wrong and how AWS categorizes
- 2:12the different levels of being prepared.
- 2:15So, let's get started.
- 2:16Okay, so picture this. You are moving
- 2:18apartments. You've got a bunch of stuff
- 2:20in your old place, and you need to
- 2:21decide for each item what to do with it.
- 2:24Some things you will just throw away.
- 2:26Some things you will leave behind for
- 2:27now. Some things you will pack exactly
- 2:29as they are and unpack them the same way
- 2:30in the new place.
- 2:32Some things you will fix up a little
- 2:33during the move. Some things you will
- 2:34just replace entirely with something
- 2:36new. And some big furniture you might
- 2:38completely redesign to fit the new space
- 2:40better. That's basically what a company
- 2:42does with each of its application when
- 2:44moving to AWS. And there's a name for
- 2:46each of these decisions. AWS calls them
- 2:48the Rs, because each strategy start with
- 2:51the letter R. Let's go through all seven
- 2:54and in order from least effort to the
- 2:57most effort. We have the first one that
- 2:59is retire. This is the throw-it-away
- 3:00option.
- 3:02The company looks at an old application
- 3:03and realizes nobody actually uses it
- 3:05anymore. So, instead of migrating it,
- 3:07they just shut it down.
- 3:09Zero migration work, and it's actually
- 3:10the cheapest option because you are not
- 3:12paying to move something you don't need.
- 3:15The next we have is retain. This is
- 3:16leave it where it is for now. Maybe
- 3:18there's a compliance reason the data has
- 3:20to stay on premises, or maybe the
- 3:21company just bought expensive new
- 3:23hardware last year, and it doesn't make
- 3:25financial sense to move that application
- 3:27yet. So, it stays put, at least
- 3:29temporarily. The next one is relocate.
- 3:32And this is the one that's newer and
- 3:34easy to miss. So, let's be really clear
- 3:36on it. Relocate means moving the entire
- 3:39underlying infrastructure to AWS exactly
- 3:42as it is,
- 3:43at the virtualization level. A real
- 3:45example is something called VMware Cloud
- 3:47on AWS.
- 3:48Picture an entire set of virtual
- 3:50machines being picked up as a whole unit
- 3:52and placed onto the AWS hardware with
- 3:54literally nothing inside them changing.
- 3:57The key thing that makes relocate
- 3:59different from the next one, that is
- 4:01rehost, is that relocate happens at the
- 4:03infrastructure or hypervisor level.
- 4:06The whole environment moves as one block
- 4:08untouched.
- 4:10And talking about rehost, often called
- 4:11the lift and shift, this is moving an
- 4:14individual application to AWS pretty
- 4:15much as is with minimal changes.
- 4:18This is different from relocate because
- 4:20we are talking about moving an
- 4:21application over to run on a standard
- 4:23AWS resources like EC2.
- 4:26Not shifting an entire virtualized
- 4:28environment as a block. Rehost is
- 4:29usually the fastest way to start
- 4:31migrating because you are not just
- 4:33redesigning anything. You are just
- 4:34picking it up and putting it down in a
- 4:36new location. Now, let's see replatform.
- 4:39Nicknamed lift, tinker, and shift.
- 4:42This is rehost's slightly more ambitious
- 4:44cousin. You move the application over,
- 4:47but you make a few improvements along
- 4:49the way. A classic example, instead of
- 4:51keeping a self-managed database exactly
- 4:53as it was, you switch it to Amazon RDS
- 4:55during the move. So, AWS handles the
- 4:57database maintenance for you going
- 4:59forward.
- 5:00The next we have is repurchase. This
- 5:02means the company decides not to move
- 5:03the old application at all and instead
- 5:05switches to a totally different product,
- 5:08usually a SaaS product.
- 5:09So, take an example, instead of
- 5:12continuing to run an old self-built
- 5:13customer relationship management tool,
- 5:15the company just switches to a
- 5:16ready-made cloud CRM product.
- 5:19So, this is repurchase.
- 5:20And now talking about refactor or
- 5:22rearchitect, this is the big one. The
- 5:25company completely redesigns the
- 5:26application to be cloud native, built
- 5:28specifically to take advantage of things
- 5:30like auto scaling, serverless computing,
- 5:32or microservices.
- 5:34This takes the most time and effort of
- 5:35all seven options, but it also delivers
- 5:37the most long-term benefit.
- 5:40Why? Because the application is now
- 5:42built to fully exploit what the cloud
- 5:44can do.
- 5:45Now, here's your exam trap and I want
- 5:47you to really lock this in. If a
- 5:49question says fastest way to migrate
- 5:51with minimal code changes, that's
- 5:53rehost.
- 5:54And if it says moving virtual machines
- 5:56as it using VMware Cloud on AWS, that's
- 5:59relocate. Don't confuse it with the
- 6:01rehost because relocate is about the
- 6:03infrastructure layer moving untouched,
- 6:05while the rehost is about individual
- 6:07application moving with minimal changes.
- 6:10And if the question describes
- 6:11redesigning for microservices or
- 6:13serverless, that's refactor.
- 6:16One more heads-up, you might see this
- 6:17called the six Rs in some places and the
- 6:19seven Rs in others, depending on whether
- 6:21relocate is included. Just know both
- 6:23terms so neither one throws you off on
- 6:25the exam day. Now that we know the
- 6:26strategies, let's talk about the actual
- 6:28tools AWS gives you to carry them out.
- 6:31Think of this as strategy is the plan,
- 6:34tools are the equipment you use to
- 6:35execute the plan.
- 6:37The first one we have AWS Migration Hub.
- 6:40This is your single dashboard, a
- 6:42bird's-eye view that lets you track the
- 6:44progress of migration happening across
- 6:45multiple different AWS and partner
- 6:47tools, all in one place. Think of it as
- 6:50mission control.
- 6:51The next we have AWS Application
- 6:53Discovery Service. AWS Application
- 6:55Discovery Service happens before you
- 6:57migrate anything. Its job is to discover
- 6:59and catalog what you actually have on
- 7:00premises, your servers, how they depend
- 7:03on each other, and how heavily they are
- 7:04being used. You can't plan a move
- 7:06properly if you don't know what you are
- 7:07moving, right? That's what the service
- 7:09is for.
- 7:11The next we have AWS Application
- 7:12Migration Service, often called AWS MGN.
- 7:15It is the main tool for that rehost
- 7:17strategy we just talked about, lift and
- 7:19shift. It continuously replicates your
- 7:21on-premises servers into AWS, so when
- 7:23you are ready to cutover, the AWS
- 7:25version is already up to date.
- 7:27Next is AWS Database Migration Service,
- 7:30or AWS DMS.
- 7:32It moves database into AWS with minimal
- 7:34downtime. And here's something powerful
- 7:36about it, it can migrate between
- 7:38different database engine, not just the
- 7:39same one.
- 7:41Then we have AWS schema conversion tool
- 7:44or AWS SCT. It works alongside DBS, but
- 7:47it does something different. It converts
- 7:49the database schema, meaning the
- 7:50structure and the design of the database
- 7:52from one engine to another. Think of
- 7:54migrating from Oracle to Aurora
- 7:56PostgreSQL. Those two database don't
- 7:58structure things the same way
- 7:59internally. So, SCT translate that
- 8:01structure before DMS moves the actual
- 8:02data.
- 8:03And finally, a quick recap of the AWS
- 8:05Snow family, the physical devices AWS
- 8:07ships you for migrating extremely large
- 8:10offline data sets for situations where
- 8:12transferring the data over the internet
- 8:13would simply take too long.
- 8:16And here's your exam prep for this
- 8:17slide, and it's a big one.
- 8:19DMS moves the data. What was DMS?
- 8:22Database Migration Service.
- 8:24And SCT converts the schema. SCT was
- 8:26Schema Conversion Tool.
- 8:28If you are migrating between the same
- 8:30database engine, say MySQL to MySQL, you
- 8:32only need DMS because there is no
- 8:34structural translation needed. SCT only
- 8:37comes into play when you are switching
- 8:38between different types of databases.
- 8:40All right, here's a really important
- 8:42concept, so let's build it up properly.
- 8:44Imagine AWS has been watching thousands
- 8:46and thousands of companies build things
- 8:48in the cloud for over a decade.
- 8:50Some of those companies built things
- 8:51really well, reliable, secure,
- 8:53cost-effective systems.
- 8:55Others built things poorly and ran into
- 8:57problems. AWS took everything they
- 8:59learned from watching both the good
- 9:00examples and the bad examples, and they
- 9:02packaged it into an official framework,
- 9:04a rule book essentially for how to build
- 9:07good cloud architecture. And that rule
- 9:09book is called AWS Well-Architected
- 9:11Framework, and it's built around six
- 9:13pillars. Let's go through each one, and
- 9:15I want you to notice that each pillar is
- 9:17really answering just a different
- 9:18question about your system.
- 9:20Operational excellence answers the
- 9:21question, how do we run and monitor the
- 9:23system and keep improving? How do we
- 9:25operate it over time? This is about your
- 9:28day-to-day processes.
- 9:29And security answers, how do we protect
- 9:31our data, our systems, and our assets?
- 9:34This involves assessing risk and putting
- 9:36the right protection in place.
- 9:38And we have reliability. This answers,
- 9:41can this system recover if something
- 9:42fails? And can it consistently handle
- 9:45the demand placed on it? This is about
- 9:47resilience.
- 9:48And we have performance efficiency. It
- 9:50answers, are we using our computing
- 9:52resources efficiently? And are we
- 9:54adapting as our needs and available
- 9:56technology change over time?
- 9:59Another we have cost optimization. It
- 10:01answers, are we avoiding unnecessary
- 10:03spending and are we getting the best
- 10:04value for what we do spend?
- 10:06This is cost optimization.
- 10:09And sustainability, this is the newest
- 10:10pillar. It is added because it matters
- 10:13more and more.
- 10:14Answers,
- 10:15are we minimizing the environmental
- 10:17impacts of the workloads we are running?
- 10:20A simple memory trick for these six,
- 10:22OSRPCS.
- 10:24OSRPCS.
- 10:27Operational excellence, security,
- 10:29reliability, performance efficiency,
- 10:31cost optimization, sustainability.
- 10:34Say that a few times and it sticks.
- 10:36OSRPCS.
- 10:39AWS also gives you something called the
- 10:40AWS Well-Architected Tool, a free tool
- 10:43inside the console that actually reviews
- 10:45your specific workloads against these
- 10:47six pillars and gives you a real
- 10:49recommendation on where you are falling
- 10:51short.
- 10:52For the exam, expect questions that
- 10:54describe a situation and ask you which
- 10:56pillar it relates to.
- 10:58For example, if a scenario talks about a
- 10:59company reducing its carbon footprint,
- 11:01that's sustainability.
- 11:03If it talks about making sure our
- 11:05systems survive a server crash without
- 11:07going down, that is reliability.
- 11:10All right, so now here's where I need
- 11:12you to pay a very close attention
- 11:14because this is one of the single most
- 11:16commonly confused pairs on the whole
- 11:17exam.
- 11:18Well-Architected Framework versus Cloud
- 11:20Adoption Framework. They sound almost
- 11:22identical, but they solve completely
- 11:24different problems. Well-Architected
- 11:26Framework, which we just covered, is
- 11:27about how to build a workload
- 11:29technically. It's for engineers thinking
- 11:31about a specific system.
- 11:33The Cloud Adoption Framework or AWS CAF
- 11:36is about something much bigger.
- 11:39It's about how an entire organization
- 11:41plans and executes its overall journey
- 11:43into the cloud.
- 11:44This isn't about any one technical
- 11:46system. It's about people, processes,
- 11:48culture, and strategy.
- 11:50Think about it this way. A company
- 11:52moving to the cloud isn't just a
- 11:54technology change. It's an
- 11:55organizational change. Employees need
- 11:57new skills, processes need to be
- 11:59rethought, leadership needs a plan. CAF
- 12:02exists to guide all of that.
- 12:05CAF organizes this transformation into
- 12:06six perspective, and they split nearly
- 12:08into two groups.
- 12:10The first group is business-facing
- 12:11perspectives.
- 12:13Business is making sure that cloud
- 12:16investments actually accelerate real
- 12:18business outcome, not just technology
- 12:19for technology's sake.
- 12:21People evolving the skill, culture, and
- 12:24organizational structure of the company,
- 12:26so people are actually ready for this
- 12:28shift.
- 12:29Governance is aligning IT strategy with
- 12:31business goals and properly managing
- 12:33risk along the way.
- 12:36That is the first group, uh
- 12:37business-facing perspective. The second
- 12:40group is technical perspective.
- 12:42We have platform, the technical
- 12:44foundation for actually building
- 12:45workloads.
- 12:47Security, securing that technical
- 12:49foundation, and operations is running
- 12:51and operating those workloads
- 12:52day-to-day.
- 12:54And here's something worth knowing for
- 12:55the exam. AWS CAF isn't just a process.
- 12:59It's meant to deliver real, measurable
- 13:01business benefits. Specifically, reduced
- 13:04business risk, improved environmental,
- 13:05social, and governance performance,
- 13:07often shortened to ESG, increased
- 13:09revenue, and increased operational
- 13:10efficiency.
- 13:12If you see an exam question asking,
- 13:13"What's the benefit of using AWS CAF?"
- 13:15Those four outcomes are exactly what
- 13:18it's pointing at.
- 13:20So, here's your memory anchor for the
- 13:21exam trap. Well-Architected Framework is
- 13:24equal to how to build a workload
- 13:26technically.
- 13:27And CAF is equal to how an organization
- 13:29plans its overall move to the cloud. One
- 13:32is technical and specific, the other is
- 13:34organizational and broad. Don't let the
- 13:36similar names trick you.
- 13:39Now, let's talk about money.
- 13:41Specifically, how financial model of the
- 13:43cloud is fundamentally different from
- 13:44owning your own hardware.
- 13:46When a company runs its own data center,
- 13:48it has fixed costs. Meaning, it has to
- 13:50spend a large amount of money up front
- 13:52to buy servers and hardwares, regardless
- 13:55of how much they actually get used
- 13:56afterward. This is called CAPEX, short
- 13:59for capital expenditure.
- 14:01You're paying big money before you even
- 14:02know how much you will actually need it.
- 14:05But in the cloud, instead, you have
- 14:06variable costs. You only pay what you
- 14:09actually use with no upfront hardware
- 14:11purchase required at all. This is called
- 14:13OPEX, short for operational expenditure.
- 14:16It is completely different financial
- 14:18mindset. Pay as you go, instead of pay
- 14:20upfront and hope.
- 14:22All right? So, now let's talk about
- 14:24licensing, because companies often
- 14:26already own software licenses from
- 14:28before they move to the cloud.
- 14:30And AWS gives them options here.
- 14:33Bring your own license or BYOL means the
- 14:35company uses a software license it
- 14:36already owns and runs that software on
- 14:38AWS infrastructure. The other option is
- 14:41included license, where AWS bundles the
- 14:43license cost right into what you pay
- 14:45them. So, you don't have to manage your
- 14:47own license separately. Here's an
- 14:49important nuance for the exam.
- 14:51BYOL can be cheaper, especially if the
- 14:53company already owns the license and
- 14:55doesn't want to pay for it twice.
- 14:58And but and this is the trap. BYOL
- 15:00requires the company to track its own
- 15:02license compliance. AWS does not manage
- 15:05that for you. Remember that. So, BYOL
- 15:09can save money, but it shifts
- 15:10responsibility onto the customer.
- 15:13Next, resizing. That means matching the
- 15:14size of your AWS resources to what you
- 15:17actually need, instead of over
- 15:18provisioning just in case.
- 15:20AWS has a tool called compute optimizer
- 15:23that automatically analyze your usage
- 15:24and recommends the right size for you
- 15:26based on the real data instead of
- 15:28guesswork.
- 15:29And finally, economics of scale. Because
- 15:32AWS serves millions of customer across
- 15:34the entire world, their sheer purchasing
- 15:36power lets them buy hardware and
- 15:38infrastructure at massive scale that
- 15:40drives down the cost per unit. And
- 15:43here's a key part, AWS passes a lot of
- 15:45those saving down to customers over
- 15:46time. Which is part of why cloud pricing
- 15:49tends to get cheaper as AWS grows larger
- 15:51and not more expensive. Okay, last big
- 15:54topic for today and this one is
- 15:55genuinely fun once it clicks because
- 15:57it's really just a spectrum of how much
- 15:59are you willing to pay to sleep well at
- 16:00night.
- 16:02Let's start with two terms you
- 16:02absolutely must understand because the
- 16:04exam loves testing the difference
- 16:06between them and we might have studied
- 16:08this on the previous lectures as well.
- 16:10The first one is RTO, that is recovery
- 16:12time objective. It is about time,
- 16:15especially it's the maximum amount of
- 16:17time your system is allowed to be
- 16:19completely down after disaster before it
- 16:21becomes unacceptable.
- 16:23Think of it as how long can we survive
- 16:25being offline?
- 16:27The next we have RPO, that is recovery
- 16:29point objective. It is about data.
- 16:32It's the maximum amount of data loss you
- 16:34can tolerate measured in time. Meaning
- 16:36how far can your last good backup be?
- 16:39Think of it as how much recent work are
- 16:41we willing to lose?
- 16:43All right. So here's the fundamental
- 16:45rule that ties this whole topic
- 16:46together. The lower your RTO and RPO,
- 16:49meaning the less down time and the less
- 16:50data loss you can tolerate. And the more
- 16:53expensive and complex your disaster
- 16:55recovery setup needs to be.
- 16:57There's a direct relationship between
- 16:58how fast and complete your recovery is
- 17:01and how much it costs to maintain that
- 17:02readiness.
- 17:03AWS defines four disaster recovery
- 17:06strategies and they form a ladder from
- 17:07cheapest and slowest to most expensive
- 17:10and fastest.
- 17:11Backup and restore is the cheapest
- 17:12option. You simply store your backups in
- 17:14S3 and Glacier and if the disaster
- 17:16strike, you can restore everything from
- 17:18scratch because you are literally
- 17:20rebuilding from zero. This takes the
- 17:22longest and your RTO here is measured in
- 17:24hours to days.
- 17:26And pilot light is the next step up.
- 17:28Imagine a pilot light on a gas stove.
- 17:30It's this tiny flame that's always
- 17:32burning ready to ignite the rest of the
- 17:34stove instantly. In AWS terms, this
- 17:37means you keep your core database always
- 17:39running in a secondary region. While
- 17:41everything else, your application
- 17:43servers and so on, stays switched off
- 17:45until you actually need them. When
- 17:46disaster hits, you turn the rest on
- 17:48quickly. RTO here drops to tens of
- 17:50minutes. We have warm standby. It goes
- 17:53further. You keep a scale down and fully
- 17:55functional version of your entire
- 17:56environment running continuously in a
- 17:58secondary region. It's a smaller than
- 18:00your full production setup, but it's
- 18:02alive and working the whole time. So,
- 18:03when disaster strikes, you just scale it
- 18:05up rather than starting it from nothing.
- 18:07RTO drops to just minutes.
- 18:10And finally, multi-site active.
- 18:12The most expensive option. Your full
- 18:14production environment runs
- 18:15simultaneously in two or more regions at
- 18:17the same time. Both actively serving
- 18:20traffic. If one region goes down, the
- 18:22other is already running and takes over
- 18:24instantly. This gets you RTO that's near
- 18:26zero, but obviously running two full
- 18:28production environments cost
- 18:29significantly more than any of the other
- 18:31options. Here's your exam trap and this
- 18:33is a classic scenario matching question.
- 18:35RTO of 1 day and we want to minimize
- 18:38cost. It points to backup and restore.
- 18:42RTO of minutes and some added cost is
- 18:45acceptable. It points to warm standby.
- 18:48We have near zero RTO because this is
- 18:50mission critical. It points to
- 18:52multi-site active or active. The exam
- 18:54will describe a business need and you
- 18:56need to match it to the right point on
- 18:58this cost versus speed ladder. Okay, so
- 19:01now let's bring it all together. The
- 19:03seven R's of migration from least to
- 19:06most effort. Retire, retain, relocate,
- 19:10rehost, replatform, repurchase, and
- 19:13refactor. Remember, relocate moves
- 19:15infrastructure as is at the hypervisor
- 19:17level with zero application changes.
- 19:19That's what separates it from rehost.
- 19:22For migration tools, DMS migration data,
- 19:24SCT convert schema, migration hub tracks
- 19:28progress across tools, and application
- 19:30discovery service handles the planning
- 19:32phase before you even start moving
- 19:34anything.
- 19:36We have well-architected framework. It
- 19:37gives you six pillars for building a
- 19:39technically sound workload. Remember
- 19:41OSRPCs we discussed about? CAF gives you
- 19:45six perspective for building an entire
- 19:47organization cloud adoption journey,
- 19:49delivering reduced risk and better EC2
- 19:51performance, increased revenue, and
- 19:52increased efficiency.
- 19:54Different tools, different scope, so
- 19:56don't mix them up.
- 19:58RTO is your maximum acceptable downtime,
- 19:59and RPO is your maximum acceptable data
- 20:02loss. And disaster recovery strategy
- 20:04scales from backup and restore, the
- 20:06cheapest and slowest, all the way to the
- 20:08multi-site active or active the most
- 20:10expensive and fastest. So, for tonight,
- 20:13go back through today's five topics and
- 20:15make sure you can explain each exam trap
- 20:17out loud in your own words without
- 20:19looking at your notes. All right? And
- 20:21also, do the assessment which is given
- 20:22for today.
- 20:23If you can do that, you have genuinely
- 20:25got this material.
- 20:27Tomorrow is day 21, our final channel
- 20:29day. We are covering storage, backup,
- 20:31business application, billing support,
- 20:34and the AWS partner ecosystem.
- 20:36See you there for the finish line. Have
- 20:38a great day ahead.
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