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1. Strategic Migration and Business Objectives

  • Drivers for cloud adoption and defining success metrics.
  • Exploring migration approaches: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
  • Setting goals, KPIs, and defining roles within the migration program.

2. Discovery, Evaluation, and Planning

  • Collecting inventories, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
  • Evaluating readiness for the cloud and determining resource sizes.
  • Prioritizing workloads, structuring migration waves, and assessing risks.

3. Networking, Security, and Landing Zone Design

  • Architecting VPCs, selecting connectivity solutions (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid models.
  • Managing identity, access controls, encryption, and governance during the transition.
  • Establishing account strategies, landing zones, and security guardrails.

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

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication processes, and configuration settings.
  • Testing replicated instances, conducting test cutovers, and verifying application health.
  • Executing final cutovers, performing post-cutover checks, and preparing rollback strategies.

5. Database Migration and Data Movement

  • Core DMS concepts: full loads, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Handling schema conversion and implementing data validation techniques.
  • Exploring bulk transfer methods: DataSync, Snow family devices, and secure network transfers.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring

  • Determining when to replatform or refactor: leveraging containers, serverless, and managed services.
  • Design patterns for modern architectures, including microservices and event-driven systems.
  • Adopting gradual migration strategies like the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Preparation

  • Creating test plans, benchmarking performance, and conducting QA validation.
  • Coordinating cutovers, managing DNS updates, and switching traffic safely.
  • Preparing operational runbooks, backup solutions, monitoring, and incident response plans.

8. Cost Efficiency, Performance Optimization, and Post-Migration

  • Rightsizing resources, utilizing savings plans, and enforcing cost governance.
  • Tuning performance, configuring autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, creating optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

9. Practical Workshop: Comprehensive Migration Scenario

  • Conducting discovery and planning a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicating servers with MGN and performing a test cutover.
  • Migrating a sample database using DMS and verifying the results.
  • Finalizing the cutover, validating services, and recording outcomes.

Recap and Future Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking concepts.
  • Experience with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic proficiency in database management and storage principles.

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers.
  • Infrastructure and operations teams.
  • IT managers and project leaders overseeing migration initiatives.
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