Migrating SAS Viya to the AWS Cloud

Ali Aiello, SAS Institute

Dilip Rajan and Battulga Purevragchaa, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

June 2021 (document history)

SAS Viya is a cloud-enabled, in-memory analytics engine that provides quick, accurate, and reliable analytical insights. It uses elastic, scalable, and fault-tolerant processing that addresses complex analytical challenges while scaling for future use cases. SAS Viya has the following benefits:

• Fast processing for large-scale data and complex analytics, which includes machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence.

• A standardized code base that supports programming in SAS and other languages, such as Python, R, Java, and Lua.

• Support for cloud, on-site, and hybrid environments. SAS Viya deploys to any infrastructure or application ecosystem.

This guide describes how to migrate SAS Viya to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and modernize your SAS workloads by using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). It also discusses other architectural and design considerations in terms of costs, licenses, and best practices. The target audience is IT professionals who have both SAS and AWS expertise.

SAS Viya migration at a glance

Workload	Source workload	SAS Viya 3.x
	Source environment	Unix, Linux On-premises/co-location
	Destination workload	SAS Viya
	Destination environment	AWS
Migration	Migration strategy (7 Rs)	Refactor/rearchitect
	Is this a workload version upgrade?	Yes
	Migration duration	Varies by customer
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)	Backup and Restore: Recover from a Disaster
	Recovery point objective (RPO)
	Licensing and operating model for the target AWS account	Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
	Migration tools	Full-System Migration and Content Migration AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
	AWS services used	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) 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	Security Administration
	AWS Compliance Programs	SAS Governance and Compliance Manager