Course Overview

In Migrating to AWS training you will learn about various cloud migration strategies and how to apply each step of the migration process, including portfolio discovery, application migration planning and design, conducting a migration, and post-migration validation and application optimization.

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Level: Intermediate

Duration: 3 Days

Delivery Type: Instructor-Led Training

Course Objectives

• Recognize the common business and technical drivers for migrating to the cloud
• 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

Prerequisites

Recommended

• Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
• Achieved AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification
• AWS Technical Essentials
• Architecting on AWS

Who Should Go For This Training?

• Solutions Architects
• Software Engineers
• IT project Managers
• Operation Leads

Day 1

Module 0: Introduction to Migrating to AWS

• Course introduction

Module 1: What Is a Cloud Migration?

• Summarize the drivers and desired outcomes of a cloud migration
• Describe the three-phase AWS migration process

Module 2: Assessing Migration Readiness

• Summarize the activities and goals of the assess phase
• Group Exercise: Assess cloud migration readiness with AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)

Module 3: Preparing for a Migration and Understanding Related Workstreams

• Summarize the mobilize phase of the process
• Discuss the eight unique migration-related workstreams

Module 4: Discovering Landing Zones and Their Benefits

• Explain the function of a landing zone
• Discuss best practices for creating a custom landing zone
• Describe how you would use AWS Control Tower to create a landing zone

Module 5: Building a Landing Zone

• Summarize the process of building a landing zone
• Determine the best multi-account structure, governance policies, and connectivity plan for a landing zone
• Hands-On Lab: Connecting Your On-Premises Network and Directory Services to AWS

Module 6: Discovering the Portfolio and Understanding Migration Strategies

• Explain the activities of the detailed portfolio discovery workstream
• Group Exercise: Choose the best strategy (scenario-based)

Day 2

Module 7: Understanding and Choosing Portfolio Discovery Tools

• Summarize the various discovery tools available
• Distinguish which tools are best to use based on scenario
• Hands-On Lab: Gathering Application Data Necessary for Migration

Module 8: Planning and Designing a Migration

• Describe the planning and design process
• Choose and finalize an application migration strategy

Module 9: Performing the Migration to AWS

• Explain the server migration process
• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Application to AWS

Module 10: Understanding Database and Data Migration Services

• Summarize the significance of database and data migration
• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Existing Database to Amazon Aurora

Day 3

Module 11: Understanding Additional Migration Support Options

• Summarize AWS Managed Services and AWS Marketplace
• Describe SAP on AWS and services offered for Windows

Module 12: Integrating, Validating, and Cutting Over Applications

• Discuss the process and benefits of integrating, validating, and cutting over applications

Module 13: Modernizing and Optimizing an Application Migration

• Identify post-migration opportunities for modernization and optimization
• Hands-On Lab: Optimizing an Application with Amazon S3 and Amazon ECS

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

• Summarize operations in the cloud
• Review operations automation and relevant support tools

Module 15: Migration Best Practices

• Course review and key takeaways
• Hands-On Lab: Automating Application Deployments