AWS Migration Essentials
Course Details
Field | Description |
Purpose | To provide a high-level technical introduction to the methodologies and tools required to plan and execute "lift and shift" migrations to the AWS Cloud. |
Audience | Technical professionals who are new to cloud migration and need to understand the initial steps of moving workloads to AWS. |
Role | Solutions Architects, Developers, and System Administrators. |
Domain | Cloud Migration / Infrastructure / IT Strategy. |
Skill Level | Fundamental. |
Style | Conceptual and process-oriented, focusing on discovery, planning, and the selection of appropriate migration tools for data and applications. |
Duration | 1 Day. |
Related Technologies | AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), and AWS Discovery Service. |
Course Description
This course is intended to provide solutions architects with the foundational knowledge required to successfully plan and perform "lift and shift" migrations to the AWS Cloud. You will learn about methodologies for discovering, planning, performing, and tracking migrations by using various AWS tools and services. The curriculum focuses on the "Rehost" strategy, allowing organizations to move their existing on-premises servers directly to the cloud with minimal changes, ensuring a faster migration path.
Who is this course for
This course is intended for a technical audience—specifically solutions architects, developers, and administrators—who have limited to no prior experience with cloud migration but are tasked with moving their organization's first workloads to AWS.
Course Objectives
Readiness Assessment: Determine cloud readiness and identify appropriate migration strategies using AWS assessment tools.
Migration Mobilization: Articulate the key tasks involved in the planning and mobilization phases of a migration project.
Data Migration: Describe, at a high level, the services and resources necessary for migrating databases and bulk data.
Application Migration: Describe the AWS-native tools available for moving application servers and workloads securely.
Tracking & Management: Understand how to track migration progress using centralized AWS migration management tools.
Prerequisites
Required: Completion of AWS Technical Essentials.
Recommended: A basic understanding of on-premises data center architecture (servers, networking, and storage).
Course outline
Section 1: Assess
Migration phases
Migration drivers and outcomes
Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)
Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA)
Migration Evaluator
Migration Portfolio Assessment (MPA)
Section 2: Mobilize
Landing zones
AWS Application Discovery Service
Migration strategies
AWS Migration Hub
Section 3: Migrate and Modernize: Database and Data Migration
Lab 1: Database Migration with AWS DMS
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
Data migration
Section 4: Migrate and Modernize: AWS Application Migration Service
Lab 2: Application Migration with AWS MGN
Migrate servers with Application Migration Service
Modernization phases
AWS Well-Architected Framework for migration
Application optimization