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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Understanding business drivers and defining migration objectives
  • 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
  • Calculating TCO and sizing AWS resources appropriately
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning for cutover
  • Structuring migration waves and designing rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

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

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Key DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication
  • Source/target considerations and the basics of schema conversion
  • Strategies for minimizing downtime and validating data consistency
  • Operational tasks: monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
  • VPC design, routing, security groups, and connectivity setup for migration
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process
  • Considerations for firewall, DNS, and cutover networking

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost control
  • Creating operational runbooks, monitoring systems, and backup strategies

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

  • Perform discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads
  • Replicate a server using MGN and execute a test cutover
  • Migrate a sample database using DMS and verify the results
  • Complete the cutover, validate services, and reflect on lessons learned

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

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