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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying 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 comprehensive migration roadmap.

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies.
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources.
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning the cutover process.
  • Designing migration waves and establishing rollback strategies.

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow.
  • Configuring replication settings, managing snapshots, and addressing bandwidth constraints.
  • Testing replicated servers and performing test cutovers.
  • Executing final cutover and validation procedures.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Core DMS concepts: full load, Change Data Capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Evaluating source and target environments and understanding schema conversion basics.
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency.
  • Performing operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Evaluating data transfer options including AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, and direct connections.
  • Designing VPCs, managing routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process.
  • Addressing firewall, DNS, and cutover networking requirements.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and quality assurance checks.
  • Developing rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Implementing post-migration optimizations such as right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls.
  • Establishing operational runbooks, monitoring protocols, and backup strategies.

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

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

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies 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 responsible for planning migrations.
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