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 Duration 14 hours

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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining migration objectives
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace
  • 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 dependencies
  • Estimating TCO and determining appropriate AWS resource sizing
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutover activities
  • Designing migration waves and establishing rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow
  • Configuring replication settings, managing snapshots, and addressing bandwidth considerations
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers
  • Performing final cutover and carrying out validation procedures

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Grasping DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication
  • Considering source and target requirements and understanding schema conversion basics
  • Minimizing downtime and ensuring data consistency
  • Handling operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Evaluating data transfer options including AWS DataSync, the Snow family, and direct connections
  • Designing VPC structures, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process
  • Addressing firewall, DNS, and networking considerations for cutover

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Developing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Optimizing post-migration: right-sizing, autoscaling, and implementing cost controls
  • Establishing operational runbooks, monitoring setups, and backup strategies

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

  • Performing discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads
  • Replicating a server using MGN and executing a test cutover
  • Migrating a sample database with DMS and validating the results
  • Completing the cutover, validating services, and reviewing key lessons learned

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A basic understanding of IT infrastructure and networking
  • Familiarity with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Basic knowledge of databases and storage concepts

Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers
  • Infrastructure and operations teams
  • IT managers and project leads planning migrations

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