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Migration Strategy and Assessment

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

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies
  • Calculating TCO and determining appropriate AWS resource sizing
  • Conducting risk assessments and formulating cutover plans
  • Structuring migration waves and establishing 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 needs
  • Testing replicated servers and executing trial cutovers
  • Carrying out the final cutover and performing validation checks

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Key DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication
  • Source and target considerations along with basic schema conversion
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency validation
  • Operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer methods: AWS DataSync, Snow family devices, and direct connections
  • VPC design, routing, security groups, and connectivity strategies for migration
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption throughout the migration
  • Considering firewall, DNS, and cutover networking requirements

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Post-migration optimization including right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls
  • Developing operational runbooks, monitoring setups, and backup strategies

Practical Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario

  • Execute discovery processes and plan a migration wave for sample workloads
  • Replicate a server using MGN and perform a test cutover
  • Migrate a sample database via DMS and verify the results
  • Finalize cutover, validate services, and analyze lessons learned

Conclusion and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational grasp of IT infrastructure and networking concepts
  • Experience with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Fundamental understanding of databases and storage principles

Intended Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers
  • Infrastructure and operations teams
  • IT managers and project leaders involved in migration planning
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