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Course Outline

Migration Strategy and Evaluation

  • Business drivers and migration goals
  • Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, replace
  • Utilising the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools
  • Prioritising applications and developing a migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory and mapping dependencies
  • Estimating TCO and sizing AWS resources
  • Risk assessment and cutover planning
  • Designing migration waves and rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • MGN architecture and migration workflow
  • Replication settings, snapshot management, and bandwidth considerations
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers
  • Final cutover and validation procedures

Database Migration with AWS DMS

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

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer options: 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 cutover networking considerations

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
  • Rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Post-migration optimisation: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls
  • Operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies

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

  • Execute discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads
  • Replicate a server with MGN and conduct a test cutover
  • Migrate a sample database with DMS and verify results
  • Finalise cutover, validate services, and review lessons learned

Summary and Future Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking
  • Experience with virtualisation and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Foundational understanding of databases and storage principles

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers
  • Infrastructure and operations teams
  • IT managers and project leads overseeing migration projects
 14 Hours

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