Migrating an on premises workload to a web services platform

• US 10,326,826 B1
• Filed: 09/29/2014
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fitzgerald, Matthew John, Kelly, Kevin Edward, Valdez, Rudolph Vaughn, Horvath, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzales, Vincent
• Application Number:
  US14/500,888
• Time in Patent Office: 1,723 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for migrating a computer application from an entity'"'"'s premises to a web services platform. Data from multiple sources on the entity'"'"'s premises is gathered and normalized into a common format. The normalized data is used to create a topology of the network on the entity'"'"'s premises. This topology is analyzed to determine whether a computer application executing on the entity'"'"'s premises may be migrated to the web service platform.

Claims

1. A method for improving the performance of a computer application by migrating the computer application from a first network to a web services platform, comprising:

identifying a plurality of workloads hosted on a plurality of computing nodes in the first network;

generating a topology of at least a portion of the first network based at least in part on the identifying of the plurality of workloads;

identifying at least a subset of the topology that corresponds to the computer application;

determining a pattern of relationships among the subset of the topology;

determining that the pattern of relationships matches a pattern of relationships associated with an application of a web services platform; and

migrating, based on determining that the pattern of relationships matches the pattern associated with the application of the web services platform, the computer application to the web services platform.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

converting at least one of the identification of the plurality of workloads into a common format before generating the topology.

3. A system, comprising:

a memory bearing instructions that, upon execution by a processor, cause the system at least to;

gather information on a plurality of software characteristics and a plurality of hardware characteristics among a plurality of computing nodes within a datacenter;

generate a set of relationships between the plurality of software characteristics and the plurality of hardware characteristics of at least part of the datacenter;

identify a pattern in the set of relationships, wherein the pattern corresponds to a computer application on a plurality of computing nodes of the datacenter;

determine that the pattern matches a pattern of relationships associated with an application on a web services platform; and

store, based on the determining that the pattern matches the pattern of relationships associated with the application on the web services platform, an indication of the computer application in a memory.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the memory further bears instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the system at least to:

generate the set of relationships of at least part of the datacenter based at least in part on first data from a first computing node, and second data from a second computing node; and

normalize at least one of the first data and the second data before generating the set of relationships.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the memory further bears instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the system at least to:

identify the pattern that corresponds to the computer application of the datacenter that may be executed on the web services platform based at least in part on traversing at least one dependency between computing nodes of the datacenter represented in the set of relationships.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the memory further bears instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the system at least to:

identify the pattern that corresponds to a computer application of the datacenter that may be executed on the web services platform based on a performance metric associated with the computer application being executed on the web services platform.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the memory further bears instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the system at least to:

identify the pattern that corresponds to a computer application of the datacenter that may be executed on the web services platform based on an expected latency associated with the computer application being executed on the web services platform.

8. The system of claim 3, wherein the instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the system at least to gather the first data for a first computing node of the datacenter further cause the system at least to:

gather first data for a first computing node of the datacenter by accessing the first data at a known computer storage location; and

generate the set of relationships of at least part of the datacenter based at least in part on first data from the first computing node.

9. The system of claim 3, wherein the instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the system at least to gather the first data for a first computing node of the datacenter further cause the system at least to:

gather first data for a first computing node of the datacenter via an Application Programming Interface (API) call to the first computing node or a second computing node that has access to the first data; and

generate the set of relationships of at least part of the datacenter based at least in part on first data from the first computing node.

10. The system of claim 3, wherein the instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the system at least to gather the first data for a first computing node of the datacenter further cause the system at least to:

cause the computer application or a second computer application of the datacenter that has access to the first data to export the first data via a user interface; and

generate the set of relationships of at least part of the datacenter based at least in part on first data from the first computing node.

11. The system of claim 3, wherein the computer application has execution divided among a plurality of computing nodes of the datacenter.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, bearing computer-executable instructions that, upon execution by a computing node, cause the computing node to perform operations comprising:

gather information on a plurality of software characteristics and a plurality of hardware characteristics among a plurality of computing nodes within a datacenter;

generating a set of relationships between the plurality of software characteristics and the plurality of hardware characteristics of at least part of the datacenter;

identifying a predetermined pattern in the set of relationships, the predetermined pattern corresponding to a computer application of the datacenter;

determining that the pattern matches a pattern of relationships associated with an application on a web services platform; and

storing, based on the determining that the pattern matches the pattern of relationships associated with the application on the web services platform, an indication of the computer application in a memory.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein generating the set of relationships of at least part of the datacenter comprises:

generating the set of relationships based at least in part on a latency associated with executing the first application or a second application in the datacenter, a dependency between a first computing node and a second computing node in the datacenter, an operating system version of the first computing node, a graphics card of the first computing node, a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) version of the first computing node, a processor, memory, or disk utilization of the first computing node, or an input/output (I/O) utilization of the first computing node.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein identifying the predetermined pattern in the set of relationships comprises:

identifying at least a subset of the set of relationships that corresponds to the computer application.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the set of relationships comprises an indication of at least a first computing node and a second computing node of the datacenter, and an indication of a relationship between the first computing node and the second computing node.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, further bearing computer-executable instructions that, upon execution by the computing node, cause the computing node to perform operations comprising:

transforming data indicative of the datacenter from a first format to a second format; and

generating the set of relationships based at least in part on the data in the second format.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, further bearing computer-executable instructions that, upon execution by the computing node, cause the computing node to perform operations comprising:

transforming the data indicative of the datacenter from the first format to the second format, the second format comprising an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format, and transforming comprising performing an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT).

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, further bearing computer-executable instructions that, upon execution by the computing node, cause the computing node to perform operations comprising:

generate at least part of a configuration document utilized by the web services platform to configure the computer application to execute on the web services platform, based at least in part on identifying the predetermined pattern in the set of relationships.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein a first portion of the computing application executes on a first computing node of the datacenter, and wherein a second portion of the computing application executes on a second computing node of the datacenter, the first portion of the computing application and the second portion of the computing application performing different functions.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, further bearing computer-executable instructions that, upon execution by the computing node, cause the computing node to perform operations comprising:

determining that a first part of the computer application of the datacenter may be executed on the web services platform while a second part of the computer application continues to be executed in the datacenter.