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Unlock innovation and transform delivery for the modern software business. This video series provides software companies the strategies, insights, and best practices for succeeding in today's digital landscape. Season 1 “Migration: The era of cloud” guides software companies through successful migration. Watch it now and learn strategies and best practices from experts on transitioning to the cloud.
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1. What are the benefits?
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2. How do I start?
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3. What does it look like?
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4. How do I keep going?
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1. What are the benefits?
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Episode 1: The era of cloud
The what and the why to start your journey.
You’ll deepen your understanding of cloud innovation through expert insights on market trends, the far-reaching benefits, and start to demystify security and compliance.
Duration: 15mins
Speakers: Tom Ellis, Solutions Architect Manager, AWS & Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions Architect, AWSEpisode 2: Navigate the journeyWe get into it on the details including pricing, operational overhead, and responsibilities. We also give you an invaluable project plan – where to start and the steps you can follow to ensure success. You’ll have everything you need to get going.
Duration: 15mins
Speakers: Salini Nair Avanupurath, Solutions Architecture Leader, AWS & Kilian Ruess, SaaS Advisor, AWS -
2. How do I start?
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Episode 3: Foundations - Security
You’re set on the benefits. Let’s make this happen.
Start here, with the first of three short introductions to the foundational elements that will make your migration a success. Up first: security.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Shelly Dar Rapaport, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS & Kilian Ruess, SaaS Advisor AWSEpisode 4: Foundations - TalentMigration is more than just technology. It takes real human talent and an ability to upskill inside your organization. In just 10 minutes, you’ll have a bedrock of information to get going and find the right people to help you achieve your goals.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Salini Nair Avanupurath, Solutions Architecture Leader, AWS & Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS
Episode 5: Foundations - SupportNo one can do this alone. AWS Partners have helped thousands of ISVs just like you evolve into the cloud.
In this episode, we reveal how you can find the support you need, fast, as well as exploring support plans that continue to offer you guidance as you scale.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Morgan O'Farrell, ISV Partner Sales Manager - Enterprise, AWS & Kilian Ruess, SaaS Advisor, AWS
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3. What does it look like?
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Episode 6: Migration Options
Having laid out the foundation we want to tackle the actual application and make it consumable for customers.
As service providers, we need a basic structure to organize our customers (aka tenants) and to migrate our application into this model.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Tom Ellis, Solutions Architect Manager, AWS & Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions
Architect, AWSEpisode 7: Basic infrastructureThe most fundamental building blocks are virtual machines and network.
But we also have to reflect non-functional requirements, e.g. failing over between availability zones, to meet our SLAs.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Julian Arambarri Garcia, Solutions Architect, AWS & Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS
Episode 8: DatabasesWhen choosing the database runtime we have multiple options to achieve SLAs but also
to keep operational overhead low.
Speakers: Luca Guida, Solutions Architect, AWS & Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS
Episode 9: ContainersIf possible we aim to standardize the application deliverable and to containerize our application.
We need to select our container orchestration and get familiar with the options to run containers in the cloud.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Julian Arambarri Garcia, Solutions Architect, AWS & Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions Architect, AWSEpisode 10: Replication your setupAs service providers we want to scale with our customers and thus need to replicate our deployments.
AWS allows us to automate infrastructure deployment as well as integrate into CI/CD pipelines to create a replicable and safe guarded deployment.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Shelly Dar Rapaport, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS & Kilian Ruess, SaaS Advisor, AWS
Episode 11: Reducing your operational overheadOnce you have your application up and running in the cloud, you can start looking for opportunities to reduce the operational burden and remove undifferentiated heavy lifting by using managed services.
Duration: 10mins
Speakers: Luca Guida, Solutions Architect, AWS & Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS
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4. How do I keep going?
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Episode 12: Sustain your innovation
You’ve got everything you need to start your migration journey. Almost.
Because once it’s up and running, how do you keep it all going?
Find out in 15 minutes, as we explore essentials tools around monitoring, logging, cost management, and more. Let’s get started.
Duration: 15mins
Speakers: Shelly Dar Rapaport, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS & Kilian Ruess, SaaS Advisor AWS
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