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DAT202 - Using Amazon RDS to Power

Enterprise Applications

Abdul Sathar Sait, AWS

David Brunet, DLZP Group

Mark Saneholtz and Shawn Leviski, Select Staffing

November 15, 2013

What is Ahead • Introduction to Amazon Relational Database Service

– Enterprise database requirements and wishes

– Overview of Amazon RDS

– How well Amazon RDS fits enterprise application needs

– New features in Amazon RDS

• Partner Story – How DLZP group uses Amazon RDS to implement Oracle enterprise applications for their customers

– Overview of PeopleSoft architecture on AWS

– Use cases for AWS

– Moving to AWS project overview and lessons learned

• Customer Story – How Select Staffing used Amazon RDS to cut cost and speed up migration of their PeopleSoft environments to AWS

Enterprise Database Requirements

• Reliability

• Performance

• High-availability

• Scalability

• Data privacy and security

Enterprise Database Wishes

• Instant provisioning

• Easy cloning

• Push button scalability

• No effort high-availability

• Automated backups

• Automated patching

Let there be Databases! Preconfigured fully-managed database within minutes

Deploy Your Databases in Any AWS Geographic Region

Scale Your Database Instance Up or Down as You Need

Set Up High Availability and Read Replicas with No Effort

Three Popular RDBMS Engines Available

New Features in Amazon RDS

• Amazon RDS supports 3 TB DB size and 30,000 Provisioned IOPS

• High-memory instance with 244 GB memory

• Oracle on Amazon RDS supports Statspack

• New data migration capabilities for MySQL on Amazon RDS

• Create multiple read replicas in quick succession for MySQL on Amazon RDS

• Create a replica from an existing read replica for MySQL on Amazon RDS

• MySQL 5.6 with memcached and binary log access for MySQL on Amazon RDS

• Amazon RDS for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server supports Transparent Data

Encryption (TDE)

Amazon RDS - Great Fit for Enterprise Applications

Delivers enterprise application needs and wants

• Fully-managed database engines that are commonly used for

enterprise applications

• High-availability and transparent failover

• Enterprise-class performance and easy scalability

• Automated backups and easy replication

• Rapid provisioning and deployment

• Automation support with APIs and AWS CloudFormation scripts

• Low-touch management/administration

Some Enterprise Applications that AWS Customers Use

with Amazon RDS

• PeopleSoft

• JD Edwards

• Siebel

• ATG Web Commerce

• Jaspersoft

• SugarCRM

• Alfresco

AWS Partner

DLZP Group

About DLZP Group

• Established May 1, 2011

• Former PeopleSoft/Oracle employees

• Based in Richmond, Texas

• Woman and minority-owned business

• Founding member of PeopleSoft on AWS Test Drive Program

Agenda

• Provide Overview of PeopleSoft Architecture on AWS

• Use Cases for AWS

• Moving to AWS Project Overview and Lessons

Learned

PeopleSoft Architecture on AWS

Our Use Cases for Oracle on AWS

Production

instances of

enterprise

applications and

databases

Development and

test

instances for

enterprise and

custom applications

Training, POC,

sandbox,

patch testing, and

debugging instances

Disaster recovery site

on AWS

Deployment Options

• New Implementation vs Migration

New Implementation Migration from On-Premises

No legacy infrastructure Legacy systems and on-premises

dependencies require additional work

Clean implementation using optimal

infrastructure

Restrictions can be imposed by legacy

setup and configuration

Built using current best practices Migrate to current best practices as

feasible

Entire environment can be setup in less

than a day resulting in quicker Go-Live

Longer timeline due to data migration

• Create a replica of your on-site environment in the AWS cloud

• Environment will be setup using YOUR infrastructure elements

AWS instance type (Start small and scale up based on performance and user needs)

OS (Unix, Linux, Windows)

Databases supported (Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server)

Supports PeopleSoft FSCM, HCM, ELM, EPM, Portal

• Allows your team to experiment with the AWS cloud and validate

assumptions and feasibility

PeopleSoft on AWS Proof of Concept Service

Approach to Moving to AWS

• Setup Amazon VPC

• Create foundational infrastructure (web, app, proc, DB servers)

• Copy database into AWS

• Complete configuration

• Test environment and application

• Test move to production (2 iterations min)

• Move to production

• Total time to deploy: 6-12 Weeks

Project Overview

• Migration of large databases (timing)

• Customizations

• Connection to on-premises resources (i.e. LDAP, file servers)

• Availability of testing team

Migration Challenges

• Environments can be provisioned on demand

• Reduces time to implement

• Reduces complexity of technical environment

• Provides the ability to experiment with different scenarios with

minimal impact to your internal infrastructure

• Disk space is available on demand as you grow

• Disaster recovery is built into the infrastructure design

• Standardized infrastructure

• Scale up or down based on business needs

• Repeatability of deployments

Benefits of Amazon Web Services

Things to Think About

• Always setup Amazon VPC first

• Amazon RDS / Amazon EBS volumes for data storage

• Think about ports and security required to access applications and

printers, etc.

• Think about other applications that are required by your PeopleSoft

systems (Active Directory, etc.)

• Provides 5 hours of PeopleSoft running on AWS for FREE

• Guided walkthroughs for HCM, FSCM

• Environment used includes the following elements

Amazon EC2 m1.medium instance type

Microsoft Server Data Center Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

PeopleSoft 9.1 Feature Pack 2

• Provisioned in minutes

PeopleSoft Test Drive Lab

The DLZP Difference

281-912-DLZP

dbrunet@dlzpgroup.com

Select Staffing Customer experience of migration to AWS

Overview of Company – Size of Organization

and Brief History

• Select Staffing is one of the 10 largest staffing companies in the

United States

• Over 400 offices across the country

• In business for over 20 years

• Based out of Santa Barbara, CA

Primary Reasons and Goals for Moving to AWS

Challenges

• Internal infrastructure and

resources

• DR and Failover solution

• Cost of provisioning additional

infrastructure and internal

support

Goal

• Stable infrastructure

• Dynamic resource

provisioning

• Cost-effective

Major Challenges with Moving to AWS

• Upgrade challenges

• Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g

• Data transfer for go-live cut over

• 1.2 TB & 1 TB DB’s migrated over to AWS

• Required the use of replication software

Performance of AWS Compared to Your Existing

Environment

• Ability to size the environment accordingly

• Ability to experiment with various configurations to minimize costs

• Can size each component to its relevant scale

• Web servers can be provisioned on small instances

• App and process scheduler servers can be of various sizes

to manage the workload they are utilized for

Key Benefits Gained by Moving to AWS

• Greater visibility of costs and resource allocation

• Scalability without capital expenditures

• Test/QA flexibility

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References

• RDS Home Page

• RDS FAQs

• RDS Webinars

• RDS Best Practices

• Data Import Guides – MySQL

– Oracle

– SQL Server