Migrating SAS Grid to the AWS Cloud

Battulga Purevragchaa, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Eric Y. Yu, SAS Institute

July 2020 (document history)

This guide provides prescriptive steps to streamline the migration of SAS Grid software to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

SAS customers migrate their applications from on-premises data centers to AWS to gain access to cloud-based data lakes and data warehouses. Their goals are to increase the agility, security, and reliability of their applications, to lower costs, and to improve data analytics capabilities. Moving a SAS software deployment to a new location is a multi-step process that involves tasks that must be identified, planned, implemented, and tested.

This guide is intended for organizations that want to rehost or replatform their current SAS Grid installations from on premises or privately hosted environments to AWS. This migration enables organizations to evolve analytics capabilities, minimize rehosting or replatforming risks, and standardize governance and management of the statistical computing environment on AWS. The target audience is IT professionals who have both SAS and AWS expertise.

SAS Grid migration at a glance

Workload	Source workload	SAS Grid Manager for Platform SAS Grid Manager
	Source environment	Unix, Linux On-premises/co-location/non-AWS environment
	Destination workload	SAS Grid Manager Deployment: SAS Intelligence Platform software on a multi-machine host
	Destination environment	AWS Operating model: customer/MSP (ISV)
Migration	Migration strategy (7 Rs)	Rehost/replatform
	Is this an upgrade in workload version?	No
	Is the source workload different from the ISV workload?	No
	Migration duration	Varies by customer
Cost	Cost of running ISV workload on AWS	Cost and licensing
	Cost of running ISV associated workload that is being migrated to AWS	No
Assumptions and prerequisites	System limitations (minimum/maximum requirements)	SAS System Requirements
	Service-level agreements (SLAs)	SAS Technical Support Services and Policies
	Recovery time objective (RTO)	SAS 9.4 Disaster Recovery Policy
	Recovery point objective (RPO)	SAS 9.4 Disaster Recovery Policy
	Licensing and operating model for the target AWS account	Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Managed services
	Migration tooling	SAS Migration Utility AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
	AWS services used	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) FSx for Lustre Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) NAT gateway Internet gateway Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
	Benchmarks	Contact the SAS Enterprise Excellence Center for benchmark information relevant to your site.
Compliance	Security and compliance requirements	SAS 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide
	Other compliance certifications	SAS Governance and Compliance Manager