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1. Migration Strategy and Business Alignment

  • Understanding cloud migration motivations and defining success metrics.
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
  • Establishing objectives, KPIs, and organizational roles for migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Strategic Planning

  • Conducting inventory collection, dependency mapping, and application grouping.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and determining target resource sizing.
  • Prioritizing applications, constructing migration waves, and performing risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Architecture

  • Designing VPCs, evaluating connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and implementing hybrid patterns.
  • Managing identity, access, encryption, and governance during the migration phase.
  • Developing account strategies, landing zones, and baseline guardrails.

4. Server Migration via AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Configuring MGN architecture, replication settings, and continuous replication.
  • Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and validating application functionality.
  • Carrying out final cutover procedures, post-cutover verification, and rollback planning.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer Mechanisms

  • Understanding DMS concepts, including full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Addressing schema conversion needs and implementing data validation strategies.
  • Utilizing bulk transfer options such as DataSync, the Snow family, and secure network transfers.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Pathways

  • Determining when to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless technologies, and managed services.
  • Applying design patterns for modernized architectures, such as microservices and event-driven systems.
  • Adopting gradual migration approaches, including the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Preparedness

  • Defining test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and performing QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutover activities, DNS management, and traffic switching strategies.
  • Establishing operational runbooks, backup protocols, monitoring, and incident readiness.

8. Cost Optimization, Performance Tuning, and Post-Migration Management

  • Implementing rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance following migration.
  • Tuning performance, configuring autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, creating optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

9. Hands-on Workshop: Comprehensive 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, verifying services, and documenting outcomes.

Summary and Recommended Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Proficiency with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic comprehension of database and storage concepts.

Target Audience

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