COURSE OBJECTIVE:
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
TARGET AUDIENCE:
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
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
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)
COURSE CONTENT:
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
• Planning a landing zone
• Design a multi-account structure
• Governance polices
• Planning for connectivity
• Demonstration: AWS Control Tower
• Hands-On Lab: Connecting Your On-Premises Network and Directory Services to AWS
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
• Migration Evaluator
• AWS Migration Hub and AWS Application Discovery Service
• AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch
• Hands-On Lab: Gathering Application Data Necessary for Migration
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
• Server migration process
• Server migration tools
• VMware Cloud on AWS
• AWS Migration Hub
• AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN)
• Evaluating server migration tools
• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Application to AWS
Module 10: Understanding Database and Data Migration Services
• Data migration
• Online data migration services
• Offline data migration services
• Database migration
• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Existing Database to Amazon Aurora
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
• Cost optimization
• Performance optimization
• AWS tools used to optimize
• Modernize the enterprise
• Use containers
• Use serverless architectures
• Hands-On Lab: Optimizing an Application with Amazon S3 and Amazon ECS
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
• Course review
• Best practices
• Continue your learning
• Hands-On Lab: Automating Application Deployments
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