Course Outline
Migration Strategy and Assessment
- Business drivers and migration objectives
 - Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, replace
 - Using the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and discovery tools
 - Prioritizing applications and building a migration roadmap
 
Discovery, Inventory, and Planning
- Collecting inventory and dependency mapping
 - Estimating TCO and sizing AWS resources
 - Risk assessment and cutover planning
 - Designing migration waves and rollback strategies
 
Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- MGN architecture and migration workflow
 - Replication settings, snapshot management, and bandwidth considerations
 - Testing replicated servers and performing test cutovers
 - Final cutover and validation procedures
 
Database Migration with AWS DMS
- DMS concepts: full load, CDC, and continuous replication
 - Source/target considerations and schema conversion basics
 - Minimizing downtime and validating data consistency
 - Operational tasks: monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
 
Data Transfer, Networking, and Security
- Data transfer options: AWS DataSync, Snow family, and direct connections
 - VPC design, routing, security groups, and connectivity for migration
 - Identity, access controls, and encryption during migration
 - Firewall, DNS, and cutover networking considerations
 
Testing, Cutover, and Post-Migration Operations
- Validation tests, performance benchmarking, and QA checks
 - Rollback plans and contingency procedures
 - Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost controls
 - Operational runbooks, monitoring, and backup strategies
 
Hands-on Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario
- Perform discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads
 - Replicate a server with MGN and run a test cutover
 - Migrate a sample database with DMS and validate results
 - Complete cutover, validate services, and review lessons learned
 
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
 
Delivery Options
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 - Customisation of the learning experience to achieve your goals -
 - Bespoke outlines
 - Practical hands-on exercises containing data / scenarios recognisable to the learners
 - Training scheduled on a date of your choice
 - Delivered online, onsite/classroom or hybrid by experts sharing real world experience
 
Private Group Prices RRP from €4560 online delivery, based on a group of 2 delegates, €1440 per additional delegate (excludes any certification / exam costs). We recommend a maximum group size of 12 for most learning events.
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