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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Business drivers and defining migration objectives
  • Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace
  • Leveraging the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools
  • Prioritizing applications and constructing a migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies
  • Calculating TCO and sizing AWS resources appropriately
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning the cutover
  • Structuring migration waves and defining rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

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

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • DMS fundamentals: full load, CDC, and continuous replication
  • Source/target considerations and basic schema conversion
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency
  • Operational tasks including monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer methods: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
  • VPC design, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during migration
  • Firewall, DNS, and cutover networking considerations

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Validation testing, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Defining rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost management
  • Developing operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies

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

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

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

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

Target Audience

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