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
 
Testimonials (5)
The practice part.
Radu - Ness Digital Engineering
Course - AWS: A Hands-on Introduction to Cloud Computing
The trainer knew exactly what they were speaking about.
Madumetsa Msomi - BMW
Course - AWS DevOps Engineers
All good, nothing to improve
Ievgen Vinchyk - GE Medical Systems Polska Sp. Z O.O.
Course - AWS Lambda for Developers
IOT applications
Palaniswamy Suresh Kumar - Makers' Academy
Course - Industrial Training IoT (Internet of Things) with Raspberry PI and AWS IoT Core 「4 Hours Remote」
I liked getting to understand the breadth of the services offered by AWS and gaining a better understanding of their pricing model for each of those services.