Migrating to AWS - 3 Days - AWS Authorised Instructor Led

Master the End-to-End AWS Cloud Migration Journey 🚀 Whether you're modernizing legacy apps or scaling to meet new demand, cloud migration is a strategic move—but only when done right.

In this comprehensive, hands-on course, you’ll gain the skills and knowledge to lead cloud migrations with confidence—from building the business case to post-migration optimization. Learn the why, how, and what next of cloud migration using proven AWS tools, strategies, and best practices.

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, assessments, and group exercises.

In this course, you will learn 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

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

Prerequisites We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)

• Completed the AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS classroom training

• Achieved their AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification (optional)

Course outline Day 1 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)

Day 2 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 Day 3 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