Hopping in the Clouds - Migration Between Cloud Providers

Explore the challenges and solutions of migrating a large PHP application between cloud providers in this PHP UK Conference 2017 talk. Gain insights into infrastructure and code evolution, migration steps, cost analysis, and common issues encountered during the transition from Rackspace to Amazon. Learn about codebase migration, Platform as a Service components, WS SDK implementation, bastion host setup, caching strategies, backup solutions, and handling static assets and user-generated content. Discover techniques for media asset management, monitoring, autoscaling, and fuel migration. Delve into cost reduction strategies, macro services implementation, API call rationalization, and the benefits of upgrading to PHP 7. Conclude with a Q&A session to address specific migration concerns and best practices.

Introduction
Codebase migration
Platform as a Service
Platform Components
WS SDK
Bastion Host
Cache
Backup
Static assets
Usergenerated content
Web
Media Asset Management
Copying old images
Removing strange characters
Monitoring
Autoscaling
Fuel migration
Cost reduction
Macro services
Rationalizing API calls
Upgrading to PHP 7
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QA