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Course Outline

Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining migration goals.
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and replacement.
  • Leveraging the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools.
  • Prioritizing applications and developing a structured migration roadmap.

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping system dependencies.
  • Calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and determining appropriate AWS resource sizes.
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutover activities.
  • Structuring migration waves and defining rollback strategies.

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow.
  • Configuring replication, managing snapshots, and considering bandwidth constraints.
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers.
  • Performing final cutovers and validation procedures.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Key DMS concepts: full loads, Change Data Capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Source and target considerations, including schema conversion fundamentals.
  • Strategies for minimizing downtime and ensuring data consistency.
  • Operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer solutions: AWS DataSync, the Snow family devices, and direct connections.
  • Designing VPCs, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process.
  • Considering firewall rules, DNS configurations, and cutover networking.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks.
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost control measures.
  • Creating operational runbooks, implementing monitoring, and defining backup strategies.

Hands-on Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario

  • Executing discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicating a server via MGN and performing a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database using DMS and verifying the results.
  • Completing the final cutover, validating services, and reviewing lessons learned.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Proficiency with virtualization technologies and operating systems such as Windows and Linux.
  • Core understanding of database architecture and storage concepts.

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers.
  • Infrastructure and operations teams.
  • IT managers and project leads responsible for overseeing migration initiatives.
 14 Hours

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