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Migration Strategy and Assessment

  • Identifying business drivers and defining migration objectives
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and replacing
  • Utilising the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools
  • Prioritising applications and constructing a detailed migration roadmap

Discovery, Inventory, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory data and mapping dependencies
  • Estimating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and sizing AWS resources appropriately
  • Conducting risk assessments and planning for cutover
  • Structuring migration waves and devising rollback strategies

Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

  • Understanding MGN architecture and the migration workflow
  • Configuring replication settings, managing snapshots, and considering bandwidth constraints
  • Testing replicated servers and executing test cutovers
  • Performing the final cutover and validation procedures

Database Migration with AWS DMS

  • Mastering DMS concepts: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication
  • Addressing source/target considerations and fundamentals of schema conversion
  • Reducing downtime and ensuring data consistency
  • Managing operational tasks such as monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting

Data Transfer, Networking, and Security

  • Evaluating data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
  • Designing VPC architectures, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration
  • Implementing identity management, access controls, and encryption during the migration process
  • Considering firewall, DNS, and cutover networking requirements

Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations

  • Conducting validation tests, performance benchmarking, and quality assurance checks
  • Developing rollback plans and contingency procedures
  • Applying post-migration optimisations: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls
  • Establishing operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies

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

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

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental understanding of IT infrastructure and networking principles
  • Proficiency with virtualisation 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 overseeing migration initiatives
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