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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Business drivers and migration objectives.
  • Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace.
  • Utilizing the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools.
  • Prioritizing applications and building a migration roadmap.

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Collecting inventory and mapping dependencies.
  • Estimating TCO and sizing AWS resources.
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutovers.
  • Designing migration waves and rollback strategies.

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • MGN architecture and migration workflow.
  • Replication settings, snapshot management, and bandwidth considerations.
  • Testing replicated servers and performing test cutovers.
  • Final cutover and validation procedures.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication.
  • Source/target considerations and schema conversion basics.
  • 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 for migration.
  • Identity, access controls, and encryption during migration.
  • Firewall, DNS, and cutover networking considerations.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks.
  • Rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls.
  • Operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies.

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

  • Perform discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicate a server with MGN and run a test cutover.
  • Migrate a sample database with DMS and validate results.
  • Complete cutover, validate services, and review lessons learned.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking.
  • Familiarity with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic knowledge of database and storage concepts.

Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers.
  • Infrastructure and operations teams.
  • IT managers and project leads planning migrations.
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