All-in on Cloud: How We Moved from Million Euro Worth of Hardware to Azure PaaS

A real-world case study of a successful migration to Azure cloud, featuring services like Azure SQL Database, App Service, Service Bus, Application Insights. Both advantages and challenges are equally highlighted.

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1. All-In on Cloud
2. • Software developer • Functional Programming, F# • Serverless • Microsoft Azure MVP https://mikhail.io @MikhailShilkov About me
4. IT Meeting…
8. Context
9. м
10. Vehicle Telemetry
11. Architecture Sketch
12. Cost Components
13. Colocated in a Data Center
14. Management Responsibility Breakdown
15. Decision
16. Business
17. IT
18. Developers
19. All
21. Lift & Shift Virtual Machines PaaS Platform-as-a-Service
22. PaaS: Leverage Benefits of Cloud
23. Cloud Strategy
24. Price estimates
25. Price estimates
26. Price estimates
27. Ways to improve estimates
28. Implementation
29. Building Blocks
30. SQL Server
31. SQL Server Clusters
32. Hardware Specs
33. Single (Biggest) Database in Numbers
34. Plan: Azure SQL Database
35. Azure SQL Database Pricing
36. Azure SQL Database DTU Calculator
37. Azure SQL Database Perf Testing
38. Azure SQL Database: No Magic
39. Azure SQL Database: Limitations
40. Classic Migration
41. Migration with downtime
42. Migration with less downtime
43. Web Servers
44. Web Layers
45. Web Layers
46. Plan: Azure App Service
47. Azure App Service is Public
48. Queues
49. SQL Server Service Broker + CLR
50. Plan: Azure Service Bus
51. Service Bus: Performance Challenges
52. Queue Processors
53. CLR SPs / Windows Service
54. Plan: App Service Web Jobs
55. Scale-out and Processes Challenges
56. App Service Web Job
57. Monitoring
58. PRTG
59. Plan: Azure Monitoring Tools
60. Azure Portal Dashboards
61. Grafana
62. Monitoring Setup
63. Azure – PRTG Integration
64. Deployments
65. Deploying to On-prem
66. Octopus Deploy
67. ~ ~ ARM Templates
68. Naming Convention prdhibaspbla001
69. Tagging
70. Conclusion
71. Was migration doable? YES Was it easy? NO
72. Leverage…
73. No upfront investment? YES Is cloud cheap? NO
74. Don’t forget $ to…
75. Example: App Service Price Reduction
76. Is cloud fully managed? YES Is it always up? NO
77. Azure Health
78. Handling Global Cloud Outages
79. Handling Outages of Your Resources