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1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers

  • Drivers for cloud migration and criteria for success.
  • Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain.
  • Setting objectives, defining KPIs, and assigning organizational roles for migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Inventory collection, dependency mapping, and application grouping.
  • Assessing cloud readiness and sizing target resources.
  • Prioritizing applications, constructing migration waves, and performing risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations

  • VPC design, connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid integration patterns.
  • Identity management, access control, encryption, and governance during migration.
  • Account strategy, landing zones, and baseline security guardrails.

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

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

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

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

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options

  • When to replatform or refactor: containers, serverless architectures, and managed services.
  • Architectural patterns for modernized systems (microservices, event-driven designs).
  • Incremental migration approaches: strangler fig pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness

  • Developing test plans, performance benchmarking, and QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutover activities, managing DNS, and executing traffic switch strategies.
  • Operational runbooks, backup procedures, monitoring, and incident response readiness.

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

  • Rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance post-migration.
  • Performance tuning, autoscaling configurations, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Post-migration reviews, optimization roadmaps, and documentation of lessons learned.

9. 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 results.
  • Completing the final cutover, validating services, and documenting outcomes.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

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

Target Audience

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