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Formulating Strategy and Conducting Assessment

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

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies.
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources.
  • Assessing risks and planning cutover procedures.
  • Structuring migration waves and defining rollback strategies.

Server Migration via AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow.
  • Managing replication settings, snapshots, and bandwidth requirements.
  • Testing replicated servers and executing trial cutovers.
  • Performing final cutover and validation steps.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Key DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication.
  • Source and target requirements, along with basic schema conversion.
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data integrity.
  • Operational duties: monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer methods: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections.
  • VPC design, routing, security groups, and migration connectivity.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the transition.
  • Considering firewalls, DNS, and networking during cutover.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Executing validation tests, performance benchmarks, and QA checks.
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency measures.
  • Post-migration tuning: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost management.
  • Creating operational runbooks, monitoring setups, and backup strategies.

Practical Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario

  • Conduct discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicate a server using MGN and perform a test cutover.
  • Migrate a sample database using DMS and verify the results.
  • Finalize cutover, validate services, and reflect on key learnings.

Summary and Future Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking.
  • Proficiency with virtualization 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 leads overseeing migration initiatives.
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