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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 strategic migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Conducting inventory collection and dependency mapping
  • Estimating TCO and sizing AWS resources appropriately
  • Performing risk assessments and planning the cutover process
  • Designing migration waves and defining rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow
  • Configuring replication settings, managing snapshots, and considering bandwidth needs
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers
  • Carrying out the final cutover and validation procedures

Database Migration with AWS DMS

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

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Selecting data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
  • Designing VPCs, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption throughout the migration
  • Addressing firewall, DNS, and cutover networking considerations

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Implementing post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost management
  • Developing 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 with MGN and executing a test cutover
  • Migrating a sample database with DMS and verifying results
  • Completing the cutover, validating services, and reviewing key takeaways

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking principles
  • Experience with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Basic knowledge of database and storage concepts

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers
  • Infrastructure and operations teams
  • IT managers and project leaders involved in planning migrations

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