Get in Touch

Course Outline

1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers

  • Understanding motivations for cloud adoption and defining success metrics.
  • Exploring migration patterns: rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining.
  • Establishing goals, KPIs, and defining organizational roles within migration programs.

2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning

  • Gathering inventory, mapping dependencies, and grouping applications.
  • Evaluating cloud readiness and determining target resource sizes.
  • Prioritizing applications, creating migration waves, and conducting risk assessments.

3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations

  • VPC architecture, connectivity methods (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid models.
  • Managing identity, access controls, encryption, and governance during migration.
  • Formulating account strategies, landing zones, and foundational guardrails.

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

  • Understanding MGN architecture, replication processes, and configuration settings.
  • Testing replicated servers, executing trial cutovers, and verifying application functionality.
  • Managing final cutover procedures, post-migration checks, and rollback protocols.

5. Database Migration and Data Transfer

  • Core DMS concepts: full loads, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication.
  • Addressing schema conversion challenges and implementing data validation strategies.
  • Exploring bulk transfer solutions: DataSync, the Snow family, and secure network transfers.

6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options

  • Determining when to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless, and managed services.
  • Applying design patterns for modern architectures, including microservices and event-driven systems.
  • Adopting gradual migration techniques such as the strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence.

7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness

  • Developing test plans, conducting performance benchmarking, and validating quality assurance.
  • Coordinating cutover activities, managing DNS, and switching traffic.
  • Establishing operational runbooks, backups, monitoring, and incident response readiness.

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

  • Implementing rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance after migration.
  • Enhancing performance through tuning, autoscaling, and storage lifecycle management.
  • Conducting post-migration reviews, defining optimization roadmaps, and documenting lessons learned.

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

  • Performing discovery and planning a migration wave for representative workloads.
  • Replicating a server via MGN and executing a test cutover.
  • Transferring a sample database using DMS and verifying the results.
  • Finalizing the cutover, validating services, and documenting the outcomes.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking principles.
  • Working familiarity with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux).
  • Basic understanding of database structures and storage mechanics.

Intended Audience

  • Cloud architects and engineers.
  • Teams responsible for infrastructure and operations.
  • IT managers and project leaders involved in migration planning.
 21 Hours

Number of participants


Price per participant

Testimonials (1)

Upcoming Courses

Related Categories