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Objectives
This AWS Certification course teaches you how 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
Audience
This AWS Certification Training course is intended for:
- Solutions architects
- Software engineers
- IT project managers
- Operation leads
- Other individuals involved in the planning and running of migration projects
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this Amazon AWS Training course have the following prerequisites:
Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
Completed the AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS classroom training
Achieved your AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification (optional) (See our AWS Certification Training page for a roadmap to show you how to obtain this Certification)
Duration
Three days
Outline for Migrating to AWS Training
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
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)
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
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