Migrating to AWS

This course is intended for:

- Solutions architects
- Software engineers
- IT project managers
- Operation leads
- Other individuals involved in the planning and running of migration projects

In this course, you will learn to:

• Recognize the common business and technical drivers for migrating to the cloud
• Summarize the three phases of a migration and associated objectives, tasks, and stakeholders for  each
• Describe AWS architecture, tools, and migration best practices
• Distinguish between the various cloud migration strategies and when each is most appropriate
• Determine an organization’s application migration readiness
• Discover a portfolio and gather data necessary for migration
• Plan and design an application migration strategy
• Perform and validate application migration to the cloud
• Optimize applications and operations after migrating to the cloud

Day 1

Module 1: What Is a Cloud Migration?

• Drivers and outcomes of a cloud migration
• Planning for a successful cloud migration
• The three-phase migration process

Module 2: Assessing Migration Readiness

• The assess phase
• Cloud readiness assessment tools
• Examine your IT landscape and build your business case
• Group Exercise: The Cloud Adoption Tool (CART)

Module 3: Preparing for a Migration and Understanding Related Workstreams

• Mobilize phase
• Migration-related workstreams

Module 4: Discovering Landing Zones and Their Benefits

• What is a landing zone?
• Custom multi-account structure with AWS Organizations
• AWS Control Tower
• Customizations for AWS Control Tower (CfCt)
• Planning for connectivity

Module 5: Building a Landing Zone

• Hands-On Lab: Connecting Your On-Premises Network and Directory Services to AWS
• Planning a landing zone
• Design a multi-account structure
• Governance polices
• Planning for connectivity
• Demonstration: AWS Control Tower

Module 6: Discovering the Portfolio and Understanding Migration Strategies

• Detailed portfolio discovery workstream
• Evaluating cloud readiness
• Cloud migration strategies
• Group Exercise: Choose a migration strategy (scenario-based)

Day 2

Module 7: Understanding and Choosing Portfolio Discovery Tools

• Hands-On Lab: Gathering Application Data Necessary for Migration
• Migration Evaluator
• AWS Migration Hub and AWS Application Discovery Service
• AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch

Module 8: Planning and Designing a Migration

• Plan the migration overall
• Building the migration factory
• Design the migration for each application
• Group Exercise: Build a migration plan
• Group Exercise: Design for migration

Module 9: Performing the Migration to AWS

• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Application to AWS
• Server migration process
• Server migration tools
• VMware Cloud on AWS
• AWS Migration Hub
• AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN)
• Evaluating server migration tools

Module 10: Understanding Database and Data Migration Services

• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Existing Database to Amazon Aurora
• Data migration
• Online data migration services
• Offline data migration services
• Database migration

Day 3

Module 11: Understanding Additional Migration Support Options

• AWS Managed Services
• AWS Service Catalog
• AWS Service Catalog integrations
• Microsoft workloads on AWS
• SAP on AWS

Module 12: Integrating, Validating, and Cutting Over Applications

• Migrate and modernize phase
• Cutover strategy

Module 13: Modernizing and Optimizing Applications

• Hands-On Lab: Optimizing an Application with Amazon S3 and Amazon ECS
• Cost optimization
• Performance optimization
• AWS tools used to optimize
• Modernize the enterprise
• Use containers
• Use serverless architectures

Module 14: Understanding Operations Tools, Integration Testing, and Automation

• AWS Config
• Infrastructure and operations as code
• Adopting a DevOps approach
• Automate change and configuration
• Automate management

Module 15: Migration Best Practices

• Hands-On Lab: Automating Application Deployments
• Course review
• Best practices
• Continue your learning

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
• Completed the AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS classroom training
• Achieved their AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification (optional)

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Activities

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, assessments, and group exercises.