Course Outline
1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers
- Understanding motivations for cloud migration and defining success metrics.
- Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
- Setting clear objectives, KPIs, and defining organizational roles for migration programs.
2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning
- Conducting inventory collection, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
- Evaluating cloud readiness and sizing appropriate target resources.
- Prioritizing applications, structuring migration waves, and assessing risks.
3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations
- Designing VPCs, selecting connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and implementing hybrid patterns.
- Managing identity, access controls, encryption, and governance throughout the migration.
- Establishing account strategies, landing zones, and baseline guardrails.
4. Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- Understanding MGN architecture, replication mechanisms, and configuration settings.
- Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and validating application integrity.
- Performing final cutover procedures, conducting post-cutover checks, and planning rollbacks.
5. Database Migration and Data Transfer
- Mastering DMS concepts: full loads, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
- Addressing schema conversion considerations and implementing data validation strategies.
- Utilizing bulk transfer options such as DataSync, the Snow family, and secure network transfers.
6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options
- Determining when to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless, and managed services.
- Applying design patterns for modernized architectures, including microservices and event-driven models.
- Implementing gradual migration approaches like the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.
7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness
- Defining test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and performing QA validation.
- Coordinating cutovers, managing DNS, and strategizing traffic switches.
- Creating operational runbooks, establishing backups, monitoring, and incident readiness.
8. Cost Optimization, Performance Tuning, and Post-Migration Tasks
- Rightsizing resources, utilizing savings plans, and enforcing cost governance post-migration.
- Tuning performance, implementing autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles.
- Conducting post-migration reviews, planning optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.
9. Hands-on Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario
- Performing discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
- Replicating a server using MGN and executing a test cutover.
- Migrating a sample database with DMS and validating the results.
- Completing the final cutover, validating services, and documenting outcomes.
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
- Experience with virtualization and operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
- Basic familiarity with database and storage concepts.
Target Audience
- Cloud architects and engineers.
- Infrastructure and operations teams.
- IT managers and project leads responsible for planning migration initiatives.
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