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Migration Strategy and Assessment

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

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies.
  • Estimating TCO and sizing AWS resources.
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutovers.
  • Structuring migration waves and developing rollback strategies.

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow.
  • Configuring replication, managing snapshots, and considering bandwidth.
  • Testing replicated servers and conducting test cutovers.
  • Executing final cutovers and validation procedures.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Key DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication.
  • Source and target considerations and basic schema conversion.
  • Reducing downtime and validating data consistency.
  • Operational tasks including 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 connectivity for migration.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during migration.
  • Considering firewall, DNS, and networking requirements for cutover.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks.
  • Implementing rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost management.
  • Creating operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies.

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

  • Performing discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicating a server with MGN and executing 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 understanding of IT infrastructure and networking.
  • Familiarity with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic knowledge 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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