#632: Accelerate AWS Cloud Journeys with Experience-Based Acceleration
Oct 23, 2023
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The podcast features Bilal Shirazi and Rughved Gadgil discussing the benefits of Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) in AWS Cloud Journeys. They talk about achieving outcomes in days not months, delivering ML use cases in 8-12 weeks, and how AWS supports customers without enough headcount for EBA.
Assess your current position and identify areas for improvement before migrating to AWS.
Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) program offers hands-on, agile support for various journeys within AWS, enabling customers to leverage AWS services and accelerate their journey by decomposing monoliths, optimizing costs, and exploring generative AI solutions.
Deep dives
Key Points on Mapping out a Migration
When planning a migration to AWS, it is crucial to assess your current position and identify areas for improvement. This assessment will help you chart your path forward. Additionally, you should ensure that your AWS foundations, including security, governance, networking, and multi-account strategy, are prepared for the migration. Familiarize yourself with AWS migration services such as AWS application migration service and AWS database migration service. Determine the order of workloads and the desired transformation approach, whether it's refactoring or rehosting. Finally, establish milestones and deadlines to keep the migration progress on track.
Understanding Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) Program
The Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) program offers hands-on, agile support for various journeys, including migration, within AWS. EBA involves multi-day customer workshops known as parties, where builders, architects, and operations teams collaborate with AWS to deliver working solutions in days, not months. Notable companies, such as SAP and Baker Tilly, have successfully leveraged EBA to drive significant changes in their work processes. The program emphasizes fun and provides engaging themes, costumes, and music during the parties to inspire creativity and productivity. EBA enables customers to leverage AWS services and accelerate their journey by decomposing monoliths, optimizing costs, and even exploring generative AI solutions like Amazon Bedrock.
Advantages and Duration of an EBA
Participating in an EBA typically spans four to six weeks, depending on the specific goals outlined in collaboration with AWS. EBA helps organizations achieve meaningful objectives by providing expert assistance and fostering team collaboration. AWS specialists from various domains, including infrastructure, security, networking, and databases, can guide customers throughout the EBA process. Beyond the immediate EBA period, customers often integrate EBA approaches into their ongoing operations, expanding the impact of the program. The process allows teams to fail faster, reprioritize tasks, and make decisions efficiently. EBA efforts culminate in demos that showcase the accomplished goals, providing a sense of pride and validation for the hard work invested.
Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) is an AWS program to accelerate cloud journeys. Today Jillian Ford speaks with Bilal Shirazi (Principal EBA Lead North America) and Rughved Gadgil (Senior Solutions Architect) and explores the benefits of EBA to overcome barriers in your cloud projects. Whether you’re just getting started or in the middle of a migration, learn how EBA’s can achieve outcomes in days not months.
Deliver your first ML use case in 8–12 weeks (blog post): https://go.aws/3Qmfzm1
Level up your Cloud Transformation with Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) (blog post): https://bit.ly/3Qrk2nG
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