Effective AWS Migration Strategies
Course Summary
This Course offers a comprehensive guide to effective AWS migration strategies, detailing the journey from on-premises environments to the cloud. You'll learn about the three crucial phases: Assessment, Planning, and Execution.
Key topics covered include:
- Assessing organizational readiness and workload discovery, along with creating a robust Business Case to justify migration benefits like cost savings.
- Developing a macro execution plan (Big Bang vs. Phased migration) and a micro execution plan utilizing the 7 R's of migration strategies: Retire, Retain, Relocate, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor/Re-architect, and Repurchase.
- The importance of establishing a foundation architecture on AWS (networking, IAM, security, data protection, automation) before execution.
- The Execution phase, covering data and application migration, testing, optimization, and cutover.
- An overview of essential AWS migration tools and services, such as Application Migration Service (MGN) and Database Migration Service (DMS) for server and database transfers, respectively, and the Snowball family for large-scale data transfers.
- Emphasis on post-migration optimization and cost management to maintain efficiency in the cloud.
- Important Service Updates:
-AWS Server Migration Service (SMS): Discontinued March 31, 2022
- Use AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) instead CloudEndure Migration: Available only in AWS GovCloud and China regions with limited ongoing support.
-AWS MGN Pricing: Free to use - you only pay for AWS infrastructure resources consumed during migration
Course Curriculum
