Migrating to AWS

Course subjects

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

• Mobilise phase

• Migration-related workstreams

Module 4: Discovering Landing Zones and Their Benefits

• What is a landing zone?

• Custom multi-account structure with AWS Organisations

• AWS Control Tower

• Customisations for AWS Control Tower (CfCt)

• Planning for connectivity

Module 5: Building a Landing Zone

• Planning a landing zone

• Design a multi-account structure

• Governance polices

• Planning for connectivity

• 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

• Detailed portfolio discovery workstream

• Evaluating cloud readiness

• Cloud migration strategies

• Group Exercise: Choose a migration strategy (scenario-based)

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 Migration Hub

• 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

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 modernise phase

• Cutover strategy

Module 13: Modernising and Optimising Applications

• Cost optimisation

• Performance optimisation

• AWS tools used to optimise

• Modernise the enterprise

• Use containers

• Use serverless architectures

• Hands-On Lab: Optimising 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

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.