STG311: Lessons Learned from a Large-Scale Legacy Migration with Sysco

Migrating enterprise applications to the cloud requires thorough planning and consideration for a number of variables. Should you move your application to a similar infrastructure in the cloud (in a lift-and-shift scenario)? Or should you refactor your application to take advantage of cloud-native services for object storage, serverless, auto-scaling, and so on? In this session, an AWS expert walks through the ten commandments that enterprises should follow when moving applications to the cloud and refactoring them for optimal performance. Then, a representative of Sysco Corporation, a Fortune 50 company, shares how the company migrated mission-critical legacy business systems and modernized them to take advantage of the AWS Cloud. Learn how the company moved its enterprise purchasing system, which processes millions of dollars in sales daily, to the AWS Cloud while achieving a 60% decrease in run costs. Also discover the lessons learned and highlights of the migration, which resulted in 30% increase in performance, 3x improvement in user accessibility, and a significant decrease in order backlogs and outages.