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Course Outline
1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers
- Cloud migration motivations 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 basic understanding of IT infrastructure and networking
- Familiarity with virtualization and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
- Basic knowledge of databases and storage concepts
Audience
- Cloud architects and engineers
- Infrastructure and operations teams
- IT managers and project leads planning migrations
21 Hours
Testimonials (5)
Trainer had good grasp of concepts
Josheel - Verizon Connect
Course - Amazon Redshift
The practice part.
Radu - Ness Digital Engineering
Course - AWS: A Hands-on Introduction to Cloud Computing
The training was more practical
Siphokazi Biyana - Vodacom SA
Course - Kubernetes on AWS
The trainer knew exactly what they were speaking about.
Madumetsa Msomi - BMW
Course - AWS DevOps Engineers
All good, nothing to improve
