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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining clear migration objectives.
  • Exploring key migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, and replace.
  • Leveraging the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and various discovery tools.
  • Prioritizing application workloads and constructing a detailed migration roadmap.

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering comprehensive inventories and mapping dependencies.
  • Calculating TCO and determining appropriate AWS resource sizing.
  • Conducting risk assessments and developing cutover plans.
  • Structuring migration waves and defining rollback strategies.

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow.
  • Configuring replication settings, managing snapshots, and accounting for bandwidth constraints.
  • Testing replicated servers and executing trial cutovers.
  • Carrying out final cutover and performing validation checks.

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Core DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication.
  • Addressing source/target requirements and basic schema conversion.
  • Techniques for reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency.
  • Operational tasks including monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Comparing data transfer options such as AWS DataSync, the Snow family, and direct connections.
  • Designing VPCs, routing, security groups, and connectivity specifically for migration purposes.
  • Managing identity, access controls, and encryption throughout the migration process.
  • Considering firewall, DNS, and networking factors during cutover.

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks.
  • Establishing rollback plans and contingency procedures.
  • Optimizing post-migration through right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost control measures.
  • Creating operational runbooks, monitoring systems, and backup strategies.

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

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

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Experience with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic comprehension of database structures and storage concepts.

Target Audience

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