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1. Migration Strategy and Business Alignment

  • Understanding drivers for cloud migration and defining success metrics
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain
  • Setting clear objectives, KPIs, and defining organizational roles for migration programs

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Strategic Planning

  • Collecting inventories, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and determining resource sizing
  • Prioritizing applications, structuring migration waves, and assessing risks

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Frameworks

  • Designing VPCs, selecting connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and establishing hybrid patterns

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

  • Testing replicated servers, conducting test cutovers, and validating application functionality
  • Executing final cutover, performing post-cutover verification, and preparing rollback strategies

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer Solutions

  • Understanding DMS concepts: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication
  • Addressing schema conversion needs and implementing data validation strategies
  • Exploring bulk transfer methods: DataSync, Snow family, and secure network transfer

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Pathways

  • Deciding when to replatform or refactor: leveraging containers, serverless, and managed services
  • Applying design patterns for modernized architectures, including microservices and event-driven systems
  • Implementing gradual migration approaches, such as the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Preparedness

  • Developing test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and ensuring QA validation
  • Coordinating cutover activities, managing DNS, and planning traffic switching strategies
  • Establishing operational runbooks, backup protocols, monitoring, and incident response readiness

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

  • Implementing rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance post-migration
  • Performing performance tuning, configuring autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, developing optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned

9. Practical Workshop: End-to-End Migration Simulation

  • Conducting discovery and planning migration waves for sample workloads
  • Replicating a server via MGN and executing a test cutover
  • Migrating a sample database using DMS and verifying results
  • Finalizing cutover, validating services, and documenting outcomes

Conclusion and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking principles
  • Foundational knowledge of database management and storage concepts

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers
  • Infrastructure and operations specialists
  • IT managers and project leaders overseeing migration initiatives
 21 Hours

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