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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Business drivers and defined migration goals.
  • Exploration of migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace.
  • Utilizing the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery utilities.
  • Prioritizing applications and constructing a migration roadmap.

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies.
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and determining AWS resource sizes.
  • 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 considering bandwidth requirements.
  • Testing replicated servers and conducting trial cutovers.
  • Executing final cutover and validation steps.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Core DMS concepts: full load, Change Data Capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Evaluating source/target requirements and basic schema conversion.
  • Reducing downtime and verifying data consistency.
  • Operational activities: monitoring, performance tuning, and issue resolution.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer methods: AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, and direct connections.
  • VPC design, routing, security groups, and connectivity configurations for migration.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process.
  • Considerations for firewalls, DNS, and cutover networking.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Validation tests, performance benchmarking, and quality assurance checks.
  • Developing rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost control measures.
  • Establishing operational runbooks, monitoring systems, and backup strategies.

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

  • Perform discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicate a server using MGN and execute a test cutover.
  • Migrate a sample database with DMS and verify results.
  • Complete the cutover, validate services, and review key learnings.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking concepts.
  • Experience with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic understanding of database structures and storage principles.

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers.
  • Infrastructure and operations specialists.
  • IT managers and project leads overseeing migration initiatives.
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