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Course Outline
1. Strategic Migration Planning and Business Alignment
- Understanding the drivers behind cloud adoption and defining success metrics
- Exploring migration models: rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining
- Establishing clear goals, key performance indicators, and role definitions for migration programs
2. Discovery, Evaluation, and Roadmapping
- Gathering inventory data, mapping dependencies, and clustering applications
- Evaluating cloud readiness and determining appropriate resource sizes
- Prioritizing application groups, constructing migration waves, and conducting risk analysis
3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Frameworks
- Designing VPC structures, exploring connectivity solutions (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid deployment patterns
- Managing identity, access controls, encryption standards, and governance during the transition
- Formulating account strategies, implementing landing zones, and setting baseline guardrails
4. Server Relocation Using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- Understanding MGN architecture, replication mechanics, and configuration settings
- Testing replicated environments, executing trial cutovers, and verifying application functionality
- Managing final cutover protocols, post-migration validation, and rollback strategies
5. Database Relocation and Data Transmission
- Core DMS principles: initial loads, change data capture (CDC), and ongoing replication
- Addressing schema conversion challenges and implementing data verification methods
- Selecting bulk transfer methods: DataSync, Snow devices, and secure network transmission
6. Application Modernization and Architectural Refinement
- Determining when to replatform or refactor: leveraging containers, serverless, and managed services
- Applying design patterns for modern architectures (microservices, event-driven systems)
- Implementing phased migration techniques: strangler fig pattern and hybrid coexistence models
7. Validation, Cutover Execution, and Operational Maturity
- Developing test plans, conducting performance benchmarks, and executing QA validation
- Coordinating cutover activities, managing DNS changes, and switching traffic flows
- Preparing operational runbooks, backup strategies, monitoring setups, and incident response plans
8. Financial Optimization, Performance Tuning, and Post-Migration Activities
- Implementing rightsizing, utilizing savings plans, and establishing cost governance post-migration
- Tuning performance, configuring autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles
- Conducting post-migration reviews, mapping optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned
9. Practical Workshop: Complete Migration Lifecycle
- Conducting discovery and planning a migration wave for representative workloads
- Replicating a server via MGN and performing a test cutover
- Migrating a sample database using DMS and verifying data integrity
- Completing the final cutover, validating services, and documenting results
Wrap-up and Future Pathways
Requirements
- Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and network principles
- Proficiency with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
- Basic comprehension of database management and storage mechanisms
Target Audience
- Cloud architects and engineering professionals
- Teams managing infrastructure and operational workflows
- IT leadership and project coordinators overseeing migration initiatives
21 Hours
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