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1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers

  • Motivations for cloud adoption and defining success metrics.
  • Exploration of migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
  • Establishing objectives, KPIs, and organizational roles for migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and determining target resource sizing.
  • Prioritizing applications, structuring migration waves, and conducting risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations

  • Designing VPCs, selecting connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and implementing hybrid patterns.
  • Managing identity, access control, encryption, and governance during migration.
  • Developing account strategies, establishing landing zones, and implementing baseline guardrails.

4. Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication processes, and configuration settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and validating application functionality.
  • Final cutover procedures, post-cutover verification, and planning rollback strategies.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

  • DMS concepts: initial full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Schema conversion considerations and implementing data validation strategies.
  • Bulk transfer methods: utilizing DataSync, the Snow family, and secure network transfers.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options

  • Determining when to replatform or refactor: adopting containers, serverless technologies, and managed services.
  • Design patterns for modern architectures, including microservices and event-driven systems.
  • Implementing gradual migration approaches, such as the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness

  • Formulating test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and ensuring QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutovers, managing DNS, and defining traffic switching strategies.
  • Creating operational runbooks, establishing backup protocols, monitoring, and incident readiness.

8. Cost Optimization, Performance Tuning, and Post-Migration Tasks

  • Rightsizing resources, utilizing savings plans, and enforcing cost governance post-migration.
  • Tuning performance, configuring autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, developing optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

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

  • Conducting discovery and planning migration waves for sample workloads.
  • Replicating a server using MGN and executing a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database using DMS and validating the results.
  • Completing the final cutover, verifying services, and documenting outcomes.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic understanding of database and storage concepts.

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers.
  • Infrastructure and operations teams.
  • IT managers and project leaders responsible for migration planning.
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