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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

1. Migration Strategy and Business Objectives

  • Understanding cloud migration drivers and defining success metrics.
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining.
  • Establishing goals, KPIs, and defining organizational roles within migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Strategic Planning

  • Conducting inventory collection, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and determining target resource sizes.
  • Prioritizing applications, structuring migration waves, and conducting risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Frameworks

  • Designing VPCs, selecting connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and implementing hybrid patterns.
  • Managing identity, access, encryption, and governance throughout the migration process.
  • Structuring account strategies, landing zones, and implementing baseline guardrails.

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

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication mechanisms, and configuration settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and verifying application functionality.
  • Managing final cutover procedures, post-cutover validations, and planning rollback strategies.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer Solutions

  • Key DMS concepts: full loads, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Considering schema conversion and implementing data validation strategies.
  • Exploring 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, and managed services.
  • Applying design patterns for modern architectures, including microservices and event-driven systems.
  • Adopting gradual migration techniques like the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Preparedness

  • Developing test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and performing QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutovers, managing DNS, and implementing traffic switching strategies.
  • Establishing operational runbooks, backup protocols, monitoring, and incident response readiness.

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

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

9. Practical 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 via DMS and validating the outcomes.
  • Completing the final cutover, verifying services, and documenting results.

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Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies 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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