Migrating to AWS

Length 3 days

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Why study this course

Learn how to plan and migrate existing workloads to the AWS Cloud.

You will learn about various cloud migration strategies and how to apply each step of the migration process, including portfolio discovery, application migration planning and design, conducting a migration, and post-migration validation and application optimisation. Hands-on labs reinforce learning,and each lab is designed to provide you with the understanding and foundation necessary to complete migration tasks in your organisation.

This course is delivered through a mix of instructor-led training (ILT) and hands-on labs.

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how to:

Recognise the common business and technical drivers for migrating to the cloud
Summarise 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 organisation’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
Optimise applications and operations after migrating to the cloud

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Lumify Work is an official AWS Training Partner for Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Through our Authorised AWS Instructors, we can provide you with a learning path that’s relevant to you and your organisation, so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer virtual and face-to-face classroom-based training to help you build your cloud skills and enable you to achieve industry-recognised AWS Certification.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for:

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

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.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that attendees have the following prerequisites:

Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
Completed either AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS
Achieved AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification (optional)

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