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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining migration objectives.
  • Examining migration patterns: rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and replacing.
  • Utilizing AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools.
  • Prioritizing applications and developing a structured migration roadmap.

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory and mapping dependencies.
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources.
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning for cutover.
  • Structuring migration waves and designing rollback strategies.

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow.
  • Configuring replication settings, managing snapshots, and addressing bandwidth considerations.
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers.
  • Performing final cutovers and validation procedures.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Mastering DMS concepts: full load, Change Data Capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Evaluating source/target considerations and fundamentals of schema conversion.
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency validation.
  • Handling operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Exploring data transfer options: AWS DataSync, the Snow family, and direct connections.
  • Designing VPCs, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption during the migration process.
  • Considering firewall, DNS, and networking requirements for cutover.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Executing validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks.
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Applying post-migration optimizations: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls.
  • Implementing operational runbooks, monitoring systems, and backup strategies.

Hands-on Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario

  • Conducting discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicating a server with MGN and performing a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database using DMS and validating the results.
  • Completing the cutover, validating services, and reviewing lessons learned.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental comprehension of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Proficiency with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic grasp of database architectures and storage concepts.

Target Audience

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