Course Outline:
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 and Their Benefits
- What is a landing zone?
- Custom multi-account structure with AWS Organizations
- AWS Control Tower
- Planning for connectivity
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 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 an Application Migration
- 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, Planning and Designing a Migration, Performing the Migration to AWS, Understanding Additional Migration Support Options, Understanding Database and Data Migration Services, Modernizing and Optimizing an Application Migration, Integrating, and Cutting Over Applications, Understanding Operations Tools, and Automation, Migration Best Practices, Assessing Migration Readiness, Introduction to Migrating to AWS, What Is a Cloud Migration?, Building a Landing Zone, Understanding and Choosing Portfolio Discovery Tools, Discovering the Portfolio and Understanding Migration Strategies, Discovering Landing Zones and Their Benefits, Preparing for a Migration and Understanding Related Workstreams