Deploying PeopleSoft to Amazon Cloud

Use case for PeopleSoft :

• Oracle Patches
• Create a production like environment (web tier, app tier, db tier)
• install the patch
• test the patch
• once certified, throw away environment (no capital invested in hardware)

Cost Savings:

• $0.03/GB in S3 Storage
• $0.01/GB in Glacier Storage for backup
• Amazon itself saved 1.2M by migrating from tape backup to S3 Storage.

Storage Options: 

• Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• high  performance block storage device
• 1GB - 1TB
• Mount as Drives to instances with snapshot/cloning 
• charged based on provisioned IOPS (manage costs)
• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Highly scalable object storage
• 1B to 5TB
• Glacier
• Long term object archive
• extremely low cost / GB
• slow performance
• highly durable

Relational Database as a Service

• Oracle
• SQL Server
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

Project Overview: 

1. Setup a VPC
2. Create Foundational Infrastructure
3. Copy Database into AWS
4. Complete configuration
5. Test Environment & Application
6. Test move to Production
7. Move to Production
8. Total Time to Deploy: 6-12 /wks (with vendor help)