Migrating to AWS

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 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
• Identify the elements of a successful migration journey
• Describe the three-phase AWS migration process

Module 2: Assessing Migration Readiness

• Summarize the activities and goals of the assess phase
• Evaluate tools for assessing your organization’s cloud readiness
• Describe Migration Readiness Assessments (MRAs) and their importance
• 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
• 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

• Explain the activities of the detailed portfolio discovery workstream
• Describe how to assess an application’s migration readiness
• Summarize the seven migration strategies
• 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
• Summarize how to set up a migration factory
• Choose and finalize an application migration strategy

Module 9: Performing the Migration to AWS

• Explain the server migration process
• Discuss the various migration automation and governance tools available
• Evaluate server migration tools for compatibility with your environment
• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Application to AWS

Module 10: Understanding Database and Data Migration Services

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

Day 3

Module 11: Understanding Additional Migration Support Options

• Discuss 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
• Understand cost and security optimization processes
• Explore tools available to support these processes
• 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
• Discuss four functions of operations and their domains
• Review operations automation and relevant support tools

Module 15: Migration Best Practices

• Course review and key takeaways
• Summarize and reinforce AWS best practices for migrating
• Hands-On Lab: Automating Application Deployments

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

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

This course is intended for:

• Solutions architects
• Software engineers
• IT project managers
• Operation leads