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1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers

  • Motivations for cloud migration and success criteria.
  • Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
  • Setting objectives, defining KPIs, and assigning organizational roles for migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Collecting inventory, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and sizing target resources.
  • Prioritizing applications, structuring migration waves, and assessing risks.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations

  • VPC design, connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid patterns.
  • Managing identity, access, encryption, and governance during migration.
  • Account strategy, establishing landing zones, and setting baseline guardrails.

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

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication processes, and settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, performing test cutover, and validating applications.
  • Executing final cutover procedures, conducting post-cutover checks, and planning rollbacks.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

  • DMS concepts: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Schema conversion considerations and data validation strategies.
  • Bulk transfer options: DataSync, Snow family devices, and secure network transfer.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options

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

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness

  • Defining test plans, performance benchmarking, and QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutover, managing DNS, and executing traffic switch strategies.
  • Developing operational runbooks, backup procedures, monitoring, and incident readiness.

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

  • Rightsizing, utilizing savings plans, and maintaining cost governance post-migration.
  • Performance tuning, autoscaling, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, creating optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

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

  • Performing discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicating a server using MGN and executing a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database with DMS and validating results.
  • Completing the final cutover, validating services, and documenting outcomes.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking concepts.
  • 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 involved in migration planning.
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