In less than 18 months, UC Santa Cruz moved two major mission-critical applications - consisting of nine distinct components - from on-prem to the cloud. In this talk, we will discuss at a high level:
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the impetus behind these changes,
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the security and organizational workflow benefits,
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the environmental sustainability impact,
as well as some of the nitty-gritty:
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Security assessment process and results,
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Specific tools - what worked (GuardDuty for IDS, AWS Config and Trusted Advisor for auditing), and what didn’t (previous deployment automation tooling),
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Technology integrations - what went smoothly, and what required more elbow grease,
Assumes some familiarity with enterprise applications in higher education. AWS knowledge helpful but not required.
No software installs are required for this presentation.