Course Outline
1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers
- Understanding cloud migration motivations and defining success criteria.
- Exploring migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, and retain.
- Establishing objectives, KPIs, and defining organisational roles for migration programmes.
2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning
- Collecting inventory, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
- Evaluating cloud readiness and sizing target resources.
- Prioritising applications, constructing migration waves, and conducting risk assessments.
3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations
- Designing VPCs, connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid patterns.
- Managing identity, access, encryption, and governance during the migration phase.
- Defining account strategy, landing zones, and baseline guardrails.
4. Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- Understanding MGN architecture, replication mechanisms, and configuration settings.
- Testing replicated servers, performing test cutovers, and validating application functionality.
- Managing final cutover procedures, post-cutover checks, and rollback planning.
5. Database Migration and Data Transfer
- Mastering DMS concepts including full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
- Addressing schema conversion considerations and implementing data validation strategies.
- Utilising bulk transfer options such as DataSync, Snow family devices, and secure network transfers.
6. Application Modernisation and Refactoring Options
- Determining when to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless, and managed services.
- Applying design patterns for modernised architectures, such as microservices and event-driven systems.
- Implementing gradual migration approaches like the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.
7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness
- Defining test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and performing QA validation.
- Coordinating cutovers, managing DNS, and implementing traffic switching strategies.
- Developing operational runbooks, backups, monitoring solutions, and incident response readiness.
8. Cost Optimisation, Performance Tuning, and Post-Migration Tasks
- Implementing rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance post-migration.
- Conducting performance tuning, configuring autoscaling, and managing storage lifecycles.
- Performing post-migration reviews, creating optimisation 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 execute a test cutover.
- Migrate a sample database using DMS and validate the results.
- Complete the final cutover, validate services, and document the outcomes.
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A foundational understanding of IT infrastructure and networking.
- Familiarity with virtualisation technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
- Basic knowledge of database and storage concepts.
Audience
- Cloud architects and engineers.
- Infrastructure and operations teams.
- IT managers and project leads overseeing migration projects.
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