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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Business drivers and migration goals
  • Migration patterns: rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and replacing
  • Leveraging the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools
  • Prioritizing applications and developing a migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory and mapping dependencies
  • Calculating TCO and determining AWS resource sizing
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning cutovers
  • Designing migration waves and defining rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • MGN architecture and migration workflow
  • Configuration of replication, snapshot management, and bandwidth planning
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers
  • Final cutover and validation processes

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication
  • Source and target considerations and schema conversion fundamentals
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency
  • Operational tasks: monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer methods: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
  • VPC design, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration
  • Identity, access controls, and encryption during migration
  • Firewall, DNS, and networking considerations for cutover

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Validation testing, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost management
  • Operational runbooks, monitoring, 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 using DMS and verify results
  • Complete the cutover, validate services, and analyze lessons learned

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking concepts
  • Working familiarity with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Basic awareness of database and storage principles

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers
  • Infrastructure and operations teams
  • IT managers and project leads responsible for planning migrations
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