Migrating to Amazon MQ
For decades, messaging infrastructure has been the central nervous system for enterprises. However, in recent years, organizations have started to move workloads to cloud-based, managed open-source alternatives.
Why are organizations migrating?
Old Systems
Most enterprises have 20+ year-old systems with complex and redundant architectures
Maintenance
Old messaging environments are very brittle and require constant maintenance, support, and monitoring
Requirements
Messaging infrastructures need to be resilient and fast
Higher Costs
Commercial, on-prem message brokers and monitoring tools are expensive
Why Amazon MQ?
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Amazon MQ is built on proven, open-source, industry-standard ActiveMQ, run on Amazon’s industry-leading, reliable, scalable, highly available cloud platform.
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Leverage underlying AWS infrastructure to remove the complexity of environments while maintaining and possible enhancing Resiliency and Speed.
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Leverage AWS monitoring and logging services (CloudWatch and CloudTrail)
Why Cedrus?
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Over 19 years of experience in managing, architecting, and implementing successful messaging solutions
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Dedicated Integration, Cloud, and Security practices
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Solution experts with knowledge of different technology solutions (Amazon MQ, IBM MQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Tibco Messaging Services, Microsoft MQ, and more)
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Early adopters work hand-in-hand with the Amazon MQ team
Migration Methodology
Discovery
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Analysis of usage patterns
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Review messaging technologies & environments
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Review application landscape
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Leverage the Cedrus MQ Discovery Tool
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Determine the MVP
Migrate MVP / POC
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Create Amazon MQ Broker with client’s account
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Work with client to obtain connectivity to AWS
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Migrate a representative application(s)
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Document migration process
Architectural Review
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Review Technical Architectural Requirements (Security, HA/Failover/DR, Monitoring)
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Detailed review of messaging app interdependencies
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Detailed review of complete messaging footprint
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Identify phases of migration and ability to have hybrid approach
Full Migration
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Create and Configure Amazon MQ Production Environment
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Complete Phased Approach to migrating Applications
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Testing and Validation
Cedrus MQ Discovery Tool
This tool is a Node.js, Yeoman generator that calculates the complexity of migrating a client application from commercial brokers to Amazon MQ in seconds. It derives this complexity by detecting code patterns throughout files available in client projects. New patterns can be added and configured easily. The MQ Discovery Tool will produce a file that summarizes:
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The complexity of migrating the project and how long it takes on average.
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The details on the complexity of migrating every client file and the MQ coding patterns detected in each one.
