Migrating to AWS

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

• 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)
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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 modernize phase
• Cutover strategy

Module 13 : Modernizing and Optimizing Applications

• 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