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Migration Strategy and Assessment

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

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies.
  • Calculating TCO and determining appropriate AWS resource sizing.
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutover activities.
  • Structuring 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 needs.
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers.
  • Performing final cutover and verification procedures.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Mastering DMS concepts: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Addressing source/target considerations and basic schema conversion.
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency validation.
  • Handling operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Reviewing data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, and direct connections.
  • Designing VPCs, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process.
  • Considering firewall, DNS, and networking requirements for cutover.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Executing validation tests, performance benchmarking, and quality assurance checks.
  • Preparing rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Optimizing post-migration performance through right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls.
  • Establishing operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies.

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

  • Performing discovery and planning a migration wave for representative workloads.
  • Replicating a server using MGN and conducting a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database with DMS and verifying the results.
  • Completing the cutover, validating services, and reviewing key learnings.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Practical experience with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic comprehension of database architectures and storage concepts.

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and software engineers.
  • Infrastructure and operations teams.
  • IT managers and project leaders overseeing migration initiatives.
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