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1. Migration Strategy and Business Objectives

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

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Collecting inventories, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and sizing target resources.
  • Prioritizing applications, structuring migration waves, and conducting risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Design

  • VPC design, connectivity solutions (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid deployment patterns.
  • Managing identity, access, encryption, and governance throughout the migration.
  • Defining account strategies, landing zones, and baseline guardrails.

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

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication mechanisms, and configuration settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and verifying application functionality.
  • Managing final cutover procedures, post-cutover checks, and rollback strategies.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

  • DMS fundamentals: full loads, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Addressing schema conversion challenges and implementing data validation strategies.
  • Bulk transfer alternatives: DataSync, Snow family, and secure network transfers.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Paths

  • Determining when to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless, and managed services.
  • Design patterns for modernized architectures, including microservices and event-driven models.
  • Incremental migration approaches such as the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness

  • Developing test plans, conducting performance benchmarks, and performing QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutovers, DNS updates, and traffic switching strategies.
  • Establishing operational runbooks, backup protocols, monitoring, and incident response readiness.

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

  • Implementing rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance post-migration.
  • Tuning performance, managing autoscaling, and handling storage lifecycles.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, creating optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

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

  • Perform discovery and design a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicate a server using MGN and carry out a test cutover.
  • Migrate a sample database with DMS and verify the results.
  • Complete the final cutover, validate services, and record the outcomes.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

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