AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Large migrations to the AWS Cloud

Guidance designed to help you migrate 300 or more applications and servers

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Migrating 300 or more servers is considered a large migration. The people, process, and technology challenges of a large migration project are typically new to most enterprises. This publication set helps you apply the correct strategy and best practices from the outset to streamline your journey to the cloud.

Types of documents

We recommend that you start with the strategies and then read the guides in this series. After you have finished these documents, we recommend that you read the playbooks. Using the playbooks, you build the assets and processes that you use in a large migration, such as runbooks, governing documents, and tools. As you build your runbooks, refer to the patterns for details and examples of how to use specific migration tools and services. 

Strategies and guides

Strategies provide business perspectives and methodologies for cloud migrations, for CxOs and senior managers.

Guides help you implement strategies and focus on best practices and tools, for architects, managers, and technical leads.

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  • Strategy

    Strategy and best practices for AWS large…

    Created by AWS
    Best practices for large-scale migrations, with use cases from customers across industry various segments.

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    Tags: Hybrid cloud | Large Migration | Migration

    Last update
    May 11, 2022
  • Guide

    Introduction to governance for AWS…

    Created by AWS
    Learn how a governance model can help you structure and accelerate large migrations to the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: Large Migration | Management & Governance | Migration

    Last update
    January 27, 2023
  • Guide

    Guide for AWS large migrations

    Created by AWS
    This guide describes a high-level, phased approach for implementing the AWS best practices for large migrations.

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    Tags: Large Migration | Management & Governance | Migration

    Last update
    May 02, 2022

Playbooks

Playbooks are the instructions for building assets and processes for a migration, such as runbooks or tools, for workstream leads and project managers.

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  • Playbook

    Portfolio playbook for AWS large migrations

    Created by AWS
    For a large migration, create a portfolio workstream and use runbooks to plan waves, prioritize applications, and collect metadata.

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    Tags: Large Migration | Migration

    Last update
    July 05, 2024
  • Playbook

    Migration playbook for AWS large migrations

    Created by AWS
    For a large migration, create a migration workstream and use runbooks to migrate applications to the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: DevOps | Large Migration | Migration

    Last update
    May 02, 2022
  • Playbook

    Foundation playbook for AWS large migrations

    Created by AWS
    This playbook describes how to set up the people and platform foundations for a large migration project.

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    Tags: Infrastructure | Large Migration | Migration | Networking & Remote Access | Security

    Last update
    May 02, 2022
  • Playbook

    Project governance playbook for AWS…

    Created by AWS
    This playbook provides a step-by-step approach for building an effective governance model for a large migration project.

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    Tags: Cloud Financial Management | Large Migration | Management & Governance | Migration

    Last update
    February 28, 2022

Patterns

Patterns are the steps, architectures, tools, and code you use to implement your migration, for hands-on users.

In addition to these patterns, we encourage you to see the migration patterns available at AWS Prescriptive Guidance. Additional migration patterns by strategy include:

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    Migrate shared file systems in an AWS…

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    As part of a large migration to the AWS Cloud, migrate shared file systems by using this step-by-step approach with provided templates.

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    Tags: Large Migration | Migration | Storage & Backup

    Last update
    June 28, 2023
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    Get started with automated portfolio…

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    Select, prepare, deploy, and test an automated portfolio discovery tool in an on-premises environment.

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    Tags: Large Migration | Migration

    Last update
    February 25, 2022

additional resources

Links to additional information about large migrations to the AWS Cloud, including services, tools, and resources to help with your journey.

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