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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers

  • Understanding motivations for cloud migration and defining success metrics.
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
  • Establishing objectives, KPIs, and organizational roles for migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Conducting inventory collection, dependency mapping, and application grouping.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and sizing target resources accurately.
  • Prioritizing applications, constructing migration waves, and performing risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations

  • VPC design, connectivity solutions (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid architecture patterns.
  • Managing identity, access, encryption, and governance during the migration phase.
  • Implementing account strategies, landing zones, and baseline guardrails.

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

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication mechanisms, and configuration settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and validating application functionality.
  • Finalizing cutover procedures, conducting post-cutover checks, and planning rollbacks.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

  • Key DMS concepts: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Addressing schema conversion and developing robust data validation strategies.
  • Exploring bulk transfer options including DataSync, Snow family devices, and secure network transfers.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options

  • Deciding when to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless technologies, and managed services.
  • Applying design patterns for modernized architectures, such as microservices and event-driven systems.
  • Employing gradual migration approaches like 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 implementing traffic switching strategies.
  • Preparing operational runbooks, backups, monitoring setups, and incident response readiness.

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

  • Implementing rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance post-migration.
  • Optimizing performance through tuning, autoscaling, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, defining optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

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

  • Perform discovery tasks and plan a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicate a server using MGN and execute a test cutover.
  • Migrate a sample database via DMS and validate the results.
  • Complete the final cutover, verify service integrity, and document outcomes.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Practical familiarity with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic proficiency in database management and storage concepts.

Target Audience

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

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