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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 comprehensive migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Performing inventory collection and dependency mapping
  • Calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources appropriately
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning for cutover
  • Structuring migration waves and defining rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

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

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Core DMS concepts: full load, Change Data Capture (CDC), and continuous replication
  • Evaluating source/target requirements and basic schema conversion
  • Strategies for minimizing downtime and ensuring data consistency
  • Operational tasks including monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Reviewing data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, and direct connections
  • Designing VPCs, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration support
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process
  • Addressing firewall, DNS, and networking considerations for cutover

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Optimizing post-migration performance through right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls
  • Developing operational runbooks, monitoring setups, 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 running a test cutover
  • Migrating a sample database with DMS and verifying the results
  • Finalizing cutover, validating services, and reviewing key lessons learned

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental understanding of IT infrastructure and networking concepts
  • Basic familiarity with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Core knowledge of database structures and storage principles

Target Audience

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