Replicating customers' information technology (it) infrastructures at service provider networks

Abstract

Techniques are described that enable users to replicate information technology (IT) infrastructures located within the users' on-premises computing environments at a computing environment provided by a computing resources service provider. A user's IT infrastructure can include any number of interworking components including, for example, physical servers, virtual machines (VMs), software components, as well as various types of system configurations related to networking, security, and so forth. A user may desire to replicate an on-premises IT infrastructure at a service provider network, for example, to take advantage of the increased scalability and stability of the service provider network, for reduced infrastructure and management costs, for use in on-demand verification and testing of an infrastructure, or for the ability to automatically failover servers. A service provider network provides various services that can be used to automate processes involved in replicating a user's local IT infrastructure at a service provider network.