Overview
Nous’ AWS Database Migration Accelerator provides a comprehensive solution for migration from on-premises SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL to AWS services like S3 Data Lake, Amazon RDS, Aurora, or DynamoDB. This Nous Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (DMA) helps customers accelerate and de-risk their migrations from relational database and analytics systems (commercial or open source) to AWS Databases and Analytics services and enjoy cloud adoption benefits such as cost savings and performance improvements. DMA offers complementary migration advisory services to create migration strategy, solution, and implementation plans, or unblock ongoing stalled/delayed migrations. By leveraging migration proven practices, automation, and migration experts, customer can mitigate challenges and be confident on successful completion of migration implementation in a timely manner by Nous accelerator.
Week 1: Discovery and Assessment
Agenda: • Kick-off Meeting • Introductions to Stakeholders and Nous’ AWS expertise • Gather Requirements and Assess current database environment • Define Migration Goals and Objectives • Develop a Preliminary Migration Strategy
Deliverables:
- Document outlining the meeting discussions, stakeholders involved, and next steps.
- A comprehensive list of business and technical requirements for the migration.
- Analysis of the existing database environment, including performance metrics, data volume, and architecture.
- Migration goals document clearly defined goals and objectives for the migration process.
- Preliminary migration strategy outlining potential migration paths, tools, and AWS services to be used.
Week 2: Planning and Design
Agenda: • Develop Detailed Migration Plan • Identify Tools and Services Required • Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies • Review Migration Plan with Stakeholders
Deliverables:
- Detailed migration plan that includes timelines, resources required, and responsibilities.
- List of AWS tools and services that will be utilized during the migration process.
- Risk assessment report which associated with the migration along with mitigation strategies.
Week 3: Implementation and Testing
Agenda • Execute Migration Plan • Perform Data Migration using Nous AWS DMS Accelerator • Validate Data Integrity and Performance Testing • Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) • Final Review Meeting
Deliverables:
- Migration execution report including any challenges faced and resolutions implemented.
- Data validation report provide results about the data integrity checks.
- Performance testing results will have the pre and postmigration performance metrics to ensure objectives are met.
- Summary of the PoC outcomes, lessons learned, and recommendations for full scale migration
Highlights
- The Nous AWS Database Migration Accelerator pack provides organizations with a three-week proof of concept (POC) to migrate and modernize a chosen database instance
- DMA uses automation, including DMS Fleet Advisor for discovery, DMS Schema Conversion for database conversion, and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for data migration, to accelerate migrations
- DMA applies proven practices for all migration activities across discovery, assessment, estimation, implementation, testing, and deployment phases
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