AWS re:Invent 2024 - Migration & Modernization
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AI & ML
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This session explores the collaboration between AWS and SAP to unlock innovation potential with generative AI. It covers real-world use cases, the technical capabilities of AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, and provides guidance on how to get started with generative AI for SAP customers.
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Compute
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The video showcases the flexible modernization pathways available with AWS Mainframe Modernization, highlighting real-life success stories from Allianz and Visma Enterprise. It provides insights into the value, capabilities, and best practices for accelerating mainframe modernization through AWS's comprehensive portfolio of services, tools, and partner ecosystem.
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This session provides an overview of the future of VMware-based workloads on AWS, including the various migration and modernization pathways available to customers, such as relocating to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), rehosting on Amazon EC2, containerizing with Amazon ECS and EKS, and refactoring using AWS services. The session also highlights the available tools, services, and partner offerings to support customers throughout their VMware migration and modernization journey.
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The session provides an overview of the new Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), which allows customers to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly on EC2 bare metal instances within their own VPC. The service offers flexibility, control, and choice, enabling customers to migrate and modernize their VMware workloads on AWS while retaining the benefits of their on-premises VMware environment.
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This session provides an overview of ADP's modernization journey with AWS, focusing on their decision to leverage SAP's RISE offering to run their GlobalView payroll solution on the cloud. The presenters discuss ADP's history, the benefits of moving to the cloud, and the collaboration between ADP, SAP, and AWS to ensure a successful migration and ongoing innovation.
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This talk provides a comprehensive overview of the AWS Mainframe Modernization service and how it can help organizations accelerate their mainframe exit through replatforming. The presentation features case studies from two customers, Kemper and Empower, who successfully migrated their mainframe applications to AWS using the replatforming approach, highlighting the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned along the way.
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This session covers the successful migration journeys of three AWS customers - Tribune Publishing, Stericycle, and Huron Consulting Group - as they moved their VMware workloads to AWS. The panelists share key lessons learned, strategies, and insights that can guide other organizations embarking on similar VMware to AWS migration projects.
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The presenter shares his experience leading a successful cloud migration at a Fortune 500 company, emphasizing the importance of engaging employees, embracing constraints, and using a streamlined, iterative approach to accelerate the migration process. He outlines a practical methodology that can be scaled to organizations of any size, focusing on building a motivated team, leveraging cloud-native services, and delivering tangible benefits to the business.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of Gilead Sciences' journey of migrating from on-premises VMware to the AWS cloud. The presenters discuss the business drivers, migration strategy, best practices, and the resources and support available from AWS to help enterprises accelerate their cloud migration.
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Databases
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SAP and AWS have collaborated for over 16 years, and their latest joint offering is GROW with SAP, a multi-tenant SaaS ERP solution that leverages AWS infrastructure and services to enable customers to implement ERP in months instead of years. The presentation highlights GROW's user-friendly features, industry-leading business processes, and rapid deployment capabilities, all powered by the scalability and sustainability of AWS Graviton processors.
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Developer Experience
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The session covers the use of AWS Blu Age, a comprehensive process for refactoring mainframe applications, and how AI-powered features can enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the transformation. The presenters share Transamerica's experience in modernizing their mainframe-based applications and the benefits they've achieved, including improved business agility, operational efficiency, and risk reduction.
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Lockheed Martin, a 100-year-old company, shares its path to digital transformation through the power of AWS and the Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) framework. By empowering people, embracing agile processes, and leveraging the latest cloud technologies, Lockheed Martin has accelerated innovation and achieved remarkable business outcomes.
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The talk explores how to modernize a legacy Java-based monolithic application using event-driven architecture, the strangler fig pattern, and the leave/layer pattern. The presenters demonstrate how to integrate the legacy application with Amazon EventBridge and a third-party Slack service, showcasing the benefits of cloud-native development without disrupting the existing application.
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This talk discusses how AWS is leveraging generative AI to accelerate mainframe modernization, enabling customers to automate tedious tasks and focus on innovation. The speakers share Marriott's digital transformation journey, highlighting their use of cloud, microservices, and generative AI to reimagine their business processes and customer experiences.
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The video showcases how Amazon MGM Studios automated their financial close process using SAP and AWS services, highlighting the benefits of the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP, which allows ABAP developers to seamlessly integrate SAP and AWS services to drive business process innovation. The presentation also demonstrates the capabilities of the ABAP SDK, including its broad compatibility, ease of use, and access to the full range of AWS services, empowering SAP customers to expand their development horizons.
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Operations
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This session explores how companies can leverage AWS, SAP, and Amazon's supply chain services to transform their manufacturing and supply chain operations. It covers topics such as using Amazon Business for procurement, leveraging Amazon's fulfillment network, implementing connected factory use cases, and applying generative AI to derive insights from SAP and non-SAP data.
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Scaling
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This session discusses how HP Inc. has successfully migrated and scaled its mission-critical SAP workloads on AWS, including the adoption of RISE with SAP. It covers the architectural patterns, scaling workflows, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies employed by HP, as well as the key lessons learned during this journey.
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This session discusses how organizations can accelerate their cloud transformation journey using the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) framework. It features case studies from The Hartford and Adevinta, highlighting their successful cloud migration and adoption of generative AI capabilities to drive business agility and innovation.
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This video showcases how Versuni, a customer of AWS, rapidly reinvented their enterprise with RISE with SAP on AWS. The presentation highlights the key advantages of running RISE with SAP on AWS, including maximizing performance, protecting from business disruptions, innovating faster, and improving sustainability.
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The video discusses the key lessons learned from large-scale migrations and modernizations on AWS, including the importance of executive alignment, a single-threaded leader, and leveraging Cloud Centers of Excellence. The speakers also highlight the benefits of automation, hyperautomation, and generative AI in accelerating the migration and modernization journey.
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Marriott's digital transformation journey with AWS highlights the importance of prioritizing agility and innovation, while also addressing challenges like resistance to change and aligning processes with the new cloud-based technologies. The presentation covers Marriott's successful migration to the cloud, the creation of modern cloud platforms, and the adoption of practices like FinOps and DevSecOps to drive continuous improvement and cost optimization.
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