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Course Outline

Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Business motivations 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
  • Calculating TCO and dimensioning AWS resources
  • Evaluating risks and planning cutover
  • Structuring migration waves and rollback strategies

Server Migration via AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • MGN architecture and migration workflow
  • Configuring replication, managing snapshots, and addressing bandwidth constraints
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers
  • Final cutover and verification procedures

Database Migration via AWS DMS

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

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Data transfer methods: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
  • VPC design, routing, security groups, and migration connectivity
  • Identity, access management, and encryption during migration
  • Considerations for firewalls, DNS, and cutover networking

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Verification testing, performance benchmarking, and QA reviews
  • Rollback protocols and contingency measures
  • Post-migration optimisation: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost management
  • Operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies

Practical Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario

  • Conduct discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads
  • Replicate a server using MGN and execute a test cutover
  • Migrate a sample database using DMS and verify results
  • Complete the cutover, validate services, and review key learnings

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental comprehension of IT infrastructure and networking
  • Proficiency with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Foundational knowledge of databases and storage principles

Target Audience

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

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