Cevo - AWS Architectural Resilience Day - Melbourne 2024

Slides from the AWS Architectural Resilience Day hosted in Melbourne on 5th August 2024.

Covers a quick overview of current resilience challenges and some candidate patterns to enable increased resilience within your IT organisation.

1. AWS Architectural
Resilience Day

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Who am I?
Steve Mactaggart
Principal Consultant /
Migration Capability Lead
at Cevo

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A trusted advisor at every stage
STRATEGY
FOUNDATION
TRANSFORMATION
INNOVATION
Define and build the business case and strategy
for your cloud transformation to fully maximise
the value of cloud.
Build the robust and scalable cloud infrastructure
with initial guardrails to ensure security,
observability and compliance.
Harness the full potential of cloud including
advanced capabilities such as AI, to unlock
opportunities for market disruption and creation
of new revenue streams.
A holistic approach to migration, promoting
efficiency, performance, agility and resilience,
underscored by continuous upskilling and
enablement of internal teams to effectively
operate in the new cloud environment.

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Move faster, with confidence
About usAwards Industry SpecialisationsOur AWS Competencies
Cevo is a born-in-the-cloud
consultancy and a leading AWS
partner, renowned for our
expertise in simplifying and
accelerating cloud journeys.
2016
founded
10
AWS competencies &
programs
130+
consultants
4
offices
200+
certifications
•Migration Services Competency
•Resilience Services Competency
•DevOps Services Competency
Other partner programs
•Public Sector
•ProServe Ready
•Well-Architected Partner Program
•Immersion Day
•AWS Lambda Delivery
•Amazon EC2 for Windows Server
Delivery
•Financial services
•Utilities
•Government
•Healthcare
•Retail
•ISV
•Education
AWS Social Impact Partner of the
Year APJ 2022
7th fastest growing Australian IT
company 2022
•Melbourne
•Sydney
•Canberra
•Brisbane
2023 Modernising Infrastructure
winner

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Current state of resilience
96%* of current failures happen due to bad configuration or bad change execution
Resilience is more than
just backup
No one cares about backup... they
care about restore
Higher demands than ever
on IT teams
Cost
Security
Functionality
Performance
Hardware has been as
stable as it ever has
Why then all this
focus on resilience?

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Considerations for resilience engineering
Design for change
Prioritise ability to make
change fast, safe and
repeatable.
Design with failure in mind
“Everything fails, all the time”
- W. Vogels
Work “risk wise”
1.Start with storage resilience
2.Next look at network
3.Finally address compute
Keep humans away
•CI/CD
•Infrastructure as Code
•Observability
Test, Test, Test
Drive a resilience mindset as part
of regular activities

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Blue Green
Deployments

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Phoenix
Environments

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Artifact promotion

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Snapshot Restore
/ Masking Test

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Our resilience approach
Design
Detailed technical design
documents to ensure a robust and
well-articulated solution.
Infrastructure as Code
Repeatable patterns using Cevo’s
pattern library for consistent results
and automated deployment.
Production deployment
Deployed into your production
environment, integrated, and ready
for your user base.
Outcomes
AssessDesignBuild
Evaluate existing infrastructure, user
needs, and business goals to identify
requirements, key challenges and scope
for improvement to design an
optimal solution based onfunctional
and non-functional requirements.
Deploy solutions from Cevo’s pattern
library for standard requirements
orassess feasibility and estimate efforts
for tailor-made architectures based on
end-user requirements.
Develop the designed architecture using
Infrastructure as a Code for consistency
and scalability, ensuring integration with
existing systems for seamless
deployment.
TestingDeployment
Conduct comprehensive user acceptance
testing (UAT) to validate the solution
against business requirements, ensuring
all functionalities work as intended and
meet user expectations.
Roll out the solution to the production
environment, providing training and
support for a smooth transition and user
adoption.

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Resilience Assessment
Mitigate financial and
reputational losses
Prevent downtime that leads to
revenue loss and operational
disruptions.
Ensure compliance
Meet regulatory requirements and
digital sovereignty mandates, critical
for regulated industries.
Enhance security posture
Reduce vulnerabilities and
misconfigurations to bolster overall
security.
Improve customer
satisfaction
Enhance application availability and
performance, fostering customer
trust and loyalty.
Why customers use Cevo’s Resilience Assessment
Enhancing infrastructure resilience
Cevo’s Resilience Assessment evaluates the resilience of your workloads and applications using a proven framework. As an AWS Resilience Competency
Partner, we provide specialised expertise and methodologies to assess architecture and operational tooling and processes against required recovery
time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Our assessment provides you with actionable insights to enhance resilience, ensure
continuous operations, maintain regulatory compliance, and enhance security. By proactively addressing resilience challenges, you can safeguard your
business’ reputation, maintain productivity, and enhance customer confidence in a competitive marketplace.

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