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Course Outline

Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining clear migration objectives
  • Understanding migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace
  • Leveraging the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and dedicated discovery tools
  • Prioritizing applications and developing a structured migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering detailed inventory data and mapping system dependencies
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources appropriately
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning for seamless cutover
  • Structuring migration waves and establishing robust rollback strategies

Server Migration via AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Exploring MGN architecture and the end-to-end migration workflow
  • Configuring replication settings, managing snapshots, and considering bandwidth requirements
  • Testing replicated servers and executing trial cutovers
  • Performing final cutover and thorough validation procedures

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Key DMS concepts: full load, Change Data Capture (CDC), and continuous replication
  • Addressing source/target considerations and understanding schema conversion basics
  • Strategies to minimize downtime and ensure data consistency
  • Operational best practices: monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Evaluating data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, and direct connections
  • Designing VPC structures, routing, security groups, and migration-specific connectivity
  • Implementing identity management, access controls, and encryption during the migration process
  • Addressing firewall configurations, DNS management, and cutover networking considerations

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and quality assurance checks
  • Developing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Post-migration optimization techniques: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost management
  • Establishing operational runbooks, monitoring frameworks, and backup strategies

Practical Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario

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

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking concepts
  • Working familiarity with virtualization environments and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Basic comprehension of database architectures and storage principles

Target Audience

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

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