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1. Migration Strategy and Business Alignment

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

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Strategic Planning

  • Gathering inventory data, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications logically.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and determining appropriate target resource sizing.
  • Prioritizing application workloads, structuring migration waves, and conducting risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Architecture

  • Designing VPC structures, selecting connectivity methods (VPN, Direct Connect), and implementing hybrid models.
  • Managing identity, access controls, encryption standards, and governance protocols during migration.
  • Formulating account strategies, establishing landing zones, and defining baseline guardrails.

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

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication mechanics, and configuration settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and validating application functionality.
  • Performing final cutover procedures, conducting post-migration checks, and planning rollback scenarios.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer Solutions

  • Grasping DMS fundamentals: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Considering schema conversion requirements and developing data validation strategies.
  • Exploring bulk transfer options such as DataSync, the Snow family, and secure network transfers.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Pathways

  • Determining when to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless computing, and managed services.
  • Applying design patterns for modernized architectures, including microservices and event-driven systems.
  • Adopting gradual migration techniques like the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence models.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Preparedness

  • Developing test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and ensuring QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutover activities, managing DNS updates, and implementing traffic switching strategies.
  • Creating operational runbooks, configuring backups, setting up monitoring, and ensuring incident readiness.

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

  • Rightsizing resources, leveraging savings plans, and establishing post-migration cost governance.
  • Tuning performance, implementing autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, outlining optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

9. Practical Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario

  • Executing discovery processes and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicating a server using MGN and performing a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database via DMS and verifying data integrity.
  • Completing the final cutover, validating services, and documenting results.

Course Summary and Recommended Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Proficiency with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic comprehension 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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