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1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers

  • Motivations for cloud migration and success criteria.
  • Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain.
  • Defining objectives, KPIs, and organizational roles for migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Inventory collection, dependency mapping, and application grouping.
  • Assessing cloud readiness and sizing target resources.
  • Prioritizing applications, building migration waves, and risk assessment.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations

  • VPC design, connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid patterns.
  • Identity, access, encryption, and governance during migration.
  • Account strategy, landing zones, and baseline guardrails.

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

  • MGN architecture, replication, and replication settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, performing test cutovers, and validating applications.
  • Final cutover procedures, post-cutover checks, and rollback planning.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

  • DMS concepts: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Schema conversion considerations and data validation strategies.
  • Bulk transfer options: DataSync, Snow family, and secure network transfer.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options

  • When to replatform or refactor: containers, serverless, and managed services.
  • Design patterns for modernized architectures (microservices, event-driven).
  • Gradual migration approaches: strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness

  • Defining test plans, performance benchmarking, and QA validation.
  • Cutover coordination, DNS, and traffic switch strategies.
  • Operational runbooks, backup, monitoring, and incident readiness.

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

  • Rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance after migration.
  • Performance tuning, autoscaling, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Post-migration review, optimization roadmap, and lessons learned documentation.

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

  • Perform discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads.
  • Replicate a server with MGN and execute a test cutover.
  • Migrate a sample database with DMS and validate results.
  • Complete final cutover, validate services, and document outcomes.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking.
  • Familiarity with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic knowledge of database and storage concepts.

Target Audience

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