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AWS re:Invent 2022 - Salesforce’s journey of more than 1B messages: Innovating with AWS (ENT208)

Summary

Salesforce shared their experience of migrating their Marketing Cloud Engagement platform, capable of sending over a billion messages, to AWS.
Yang Yu, Senior Director of Product Management, and Omar Jaber, Master of Architects Software, presented the session.
Salesforce chose AWS for its global reach, trustworthiness, security, and industry-leading availability.
The migration to AWS's Hyperforce platform was driven by the need for data residency, scalability, and trust.
Salesforce's Customer 360 and Genie platforms create unified customer profiles for personalized experiences.
The migration to AWS allowed Salesforce to reduce data center deployment time from 6-12 months to just two months.
Omar discussed the architectural principles, focusing on zero-trust architecture and data encryption.
The transformation involved a phased approach, starting with basic elements and gradually adding complexity.
The data tier was the biggest risk, and they focused on database size, log size, log write throughput, and IOPS.
They achieved a zero-trust architecture with mutual TLS encryption for all service communications.
The migration took about 14 months, with significant improvements in deployment and validation times.

Salesforce's migration to AWS highlights the importance of cloud scalability and global data residency for enterprise-level platforms.
The emphasis on trust and security reflects the critical nature of data protection in today's digital landscape, especially for a CRM leader like Salesforce.
The detailed architectural transformation showcases the complexity of migrating large-scale, trusted platforms to the cloud.
Salesforce's approach to zero-trust architecture and data encryption is a testament to the evolving security standards in cloud computing.
The reduction in deployment time from nearly a year to two months demonstrates the efficiency gains possible with cloud infrastructure.
The collaboration with AWS Professional Services (ProServe) underscores the value of partnership and expertise in successful cloud migrations.
Salesforce's ability to maintain a consistent customer experience during the migration is crucial for retaining trust and minimizing disruption.
The session provides valuable insights for other enterprises considering similar large-scale cloud migrations, emphasizing planning, phased implementation, and security considerations.