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title: BeSA - Week 01

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# BeSA Week 01


### Question 1: Scenario Introduction

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**Problem Statement:** We are a medium sized company with about 500+ employees and 1m+ customers based predominently in NA and EMEA region. We are currently managing our workloads using 10 Datacenters located in 10 major cities in NA and EMEA (e.g. NY/London/SF/Berlin). What are the benefits you have to offer if we move to AWS?
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**Answer: talk about Cloud Introduction and about Cloud Value proposition**

**Relevant Links:**
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1. https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/
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### Question 2: How do I control where I am putting my data? [Location/Goegraphy]
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**Problem Statement:** We are part of the healthcare industry so we have some strict requirements regarding where our data can be stored (Think GDPR :)). At the same time, we want to make sure that our app is available to end users across the world without lag.
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**Answer: AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions/AZs/Edge Locations/Outposts etc.)**

**Relevant Links:**
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1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
2. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/data-centers/
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### Question 3: Compute Options
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**Problem Statement:** Our workloads are pretty diverse and they cater to different needs of our applications. We have both Virtual Machines and Containerized worklaods. Do I have to make any changes 
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**Answer: AWS Compute Options**

**Relevant Links:**
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1. https://aws.amazon.com/products/compute/
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#### Follow-up Question: Kubernetes on AWS
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**Problem Statement:** Uh, I forgot to mention one thing when I was explaining the workloads. We are running a major chunk of our workload using Kubernetes On-prem. How do we put that on AWS? Is that going to take a lot of effort / engineering hours?
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**Answer: Talk about EKS vs ECS and multiple options available on AWS for Containerized workloads**

**Relevant Links:**
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1. https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
2. https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
3. https://aws.amazon.com/containers/
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### Question 4: Discounts available on AWS for Compute

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**Problem Statement:** Do you have any sort of Customer loyalty programs or any other sort of discount options if we move a large part of workloads to AWS?
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**Answer: EC2 Pricing Options**

**Relevant Links:**
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1. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
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### Question 5: Serverless Introduction
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**Problem Statement:** I have heard about something called modern application architecture on serverless which helps customers save quite a substantial amount of money on their compute costs. is that true? can you give us some details about that?
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**Answer: Talk about Lambda and Serverless architectures on AWS (Think EDA)**

**Relevant Links:**
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1. https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/
2. https://serverlessland.com/
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