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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
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