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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining migration goals.
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace.
  • Utilizing the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery utilities.
  • Prioritizing applications and developing a phased migration roadmap.

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies.
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutover procedures.
  • Structuring migration waves and defining rollback strategies.

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Configuring replication, managing snapshots, and considering bandwidth limits.
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers.
  • Performing final cutover and validation checks.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Understanding DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication.
  • Addressing source/target requirements and basic schema conversion.
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency validation.
  • Handling operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Selecting data transfer methods: AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, or direct connections.
  • Implementing identity management, access controls, and encryption during the migration.
  • Addressing firewall, DNS, and cutover networking requirements.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA reviews.
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency measures.

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

  • Executing discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicating a server via MGN and performing a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database using DMS and verifying results.
  • Finalizing cutover, validating services, and reviewing key takeaways.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

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

Target Audience

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