The cloud has been a buzzword for a long time in the IT world. There has been a lot of hot air about why people should move to the cloud, and a lot of people with greenfield projects have been using AWS for years.

There has been rather less content on moving existing systems into cloud environments, and the resulting challenges.

This talk is about moving an existing setup into a cloud environment, constraints, challenges and lessons learnt.

This talk is aimed at system administrators, software developers and business people who are interested in migrating to the cloud, or are in the process of doing so.