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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining migration goals
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace
  • Utilizing the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools
  • Prioritizing applications and developing a migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory and mapping dependencies
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutover activities
  • Designing migration waves and developing rollback strategies

Server Migration using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

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

Database Migration using AWS DMS

  • Key DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication
  • Considering source/target requirements and basic schema conversion
  • Minimizing downtime and verifying data integrity
  • Handling operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Reviewing data transfer options including AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
  • Designing VPCs, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process
  • 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 optimizations such as right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls
  • Creating operational runbooks, monitoring strategies, and backup plans

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

  • Executing discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads
  • Replicating a server using MGN and performing a test cutover
  • Migrating a sample database using DMS and validating the results
  • Completing the cutover, verifying services, and reviewing key takeaways

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

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

Target Audience

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