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1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers

  • Drivers for cloud migration and defining success metrics
  • Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain
  • Setting goals, KPIs, and assigning organizational roles for migration programs

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and sizing target resources
  • Prioritizing applications, creating migration waves, and assessing risks

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations

  • VPC design, connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid models
  • Managing identity, access, encryption, and governance during migration
  • Account strategy, landing zones, and establishing baseline guardrails

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

  • MGN architecture, replication mechanics, and configuration settings
  • Testing replicated servers, executing test cutovers, and verifying application functionality
  • Procedures for final cutover, post-cutover verification, and rollback strategies

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

  • DMS fundamentals: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication
  • Schema conversion considerations and data validation approaches
  • Bulk transfer solutions: DataSync, Snow family, and secure network transfer

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options

  • Determining when to replatform or refactor: leveraging containers, serverless, and managed services
  • Design patterns for modernized architectures (microservices, event-driven)
  • Incremental migration methods: the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness

  • Establishing test plans, performance benchmarking, and QA validation
  • Coordinating cutover, managing DNS, and implementing traffic switching strategies
  • Preparing operational runbooks, backups, monitoring, and incident response capabilities

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

  • Rightsizing resources, implementing savings plans, and governing costs post-migration
  • Performance tuning, autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, developing optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned

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

  • Conduct discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads
  • Replicate a server using MGN and perform a test cutover
  • Migrate a sample database with DMS and verify the results
  • Finalize cutover, validate services, and record outcomes

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking principles
  • Experience with virtualization 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 leaders overseeing migration initiatives
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