AW210: Migrating to AWS™

Agenda:

• Introduction to Migrating to AWS™
  • Course introduction

• 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

• 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)

• Preparing for a Migration and Understanding Related Workstreams
  • Summarize the mobilize phase of the process
  • Discuss the eight unique migration-related workstreams

• 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

• 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™

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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™

• 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

• 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

• Integrating, Validating, and Cutting Over Applications
  • Discuss the process and benefits of integrating, validating, and cutting over applications

• 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

• 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

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

Objectives:

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

Target audience:

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

Prerequisites:

• Completion of the following AWS™ training:
  AW110 AWS™ Technical Essentials

• Completion of the following AWS™ training:
  AW200 Architecting on AWS™

• Optional: Achieved certification AWS™ Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• In-depth knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)

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