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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 migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning for cutover
  • Designing migration waves and defining rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

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

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Understanding DMS concepts: full load, Change Data Capture (CDC), and continuous replication
  • Evaluating source/target compatibility and understanding schema conversion basics
  • Minimizing downtime and validating data consistency
  • Performing operational tasks: monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Evaluating data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, and direct connections
  • Designing VPCs, configuring routing, security groups, and establishing connectivity for migration
  • Implementing identity management, access controls, and encryption during migration
  • Addressing firewall, DNS, and cutover networking requirements

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Preparing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Optimizing post-migration: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls
  • Developing operational runbooks, monitoring frameworks, 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 performing a test cutover
  • Migrating a sample database with DMS and validating outcomes
  • Completing the cutover, validating services, and reviewing key takeaways

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

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

Target Audience

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