Training: Migrating to AWS

This course teaches you how to plan and migrate existing workloads to the AWS Cloud. You learn 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, post-migration validation and application optimization. Hands-on labs are designed to provide understanding and foundation necessary to complete migration tasks in your organization.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Business and technical drivers for migrating to the cloud
• 3 phases of migration and associated objectives, tasks, and stakeholders
• AWS architecture, tools, and migration best practices
• Cloud migration strategies and when to apply each
• Determine an organization’s application and server migration readiness
• Portfolio discovery
• Plan and design migration strategy for servers, applications and databases
• Perform and validate application migration to the cloud
• Optimize applications and operations after migrating to the cloud

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hard- and software)
• Completed the AWS Technical Essentials / Architecting on AWS course
• Achieved (optional): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

3 days / € 1,995.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

• Intro

• Drivers and desired outcomes of a cloud migration
• How to migrate successfully
• 3 AWS migration processes

• Activities and goals of the assess phase
• Organization’s cloud readiness tools
• Migration Readiness Assessments (MRAs) and their importance
• Group Exercise: Assess cloud migration readiness with AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)

• Mobilize phase of the process
• 8 unique migration-related workstreams

• Function of a LZ
• Best practices for creating a custom LZ
• Benefits to employ AWS Control Tower to create a LZ

• The process of building a landing zone
• Best multi-account structure, governance policies, and connectivity plan for a LZ
• Demonstration: AWS Control Tower
• Hands-On Lab: Connecting a On-Premises Network and Directory Services to AWS

• Activities of the detailed portfolio discovery workstream
• How to assess an application’s migration readiness
• The 7 migration strategies
• Group Exercise: Choose the best strategy

• Discovery tools
• Which tools on which scenario
• Hands-On Lab: Gathering Application Data Necessary for Migration

• Planning and design process
• Set up a migration factory
• Choose and finalize an application migration strategy

• Server migration process
• Migration automation and governance tools
• Server migration tools
• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Application to AWS

• Significance of database and data migration
• Data migration tools
• Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Existing Database to Amazon Aurora

• Additional migration support options
• AWS Managed Services and AWS Marketplace
• SAP on AWS and services offered for Windows

• Benefits of integrating, validating, and cutting over applications

• Post-migration opportunities
• Cost and security optimization processes
• Hands-On Lab: Optimizing an Application with Amazon S3 and Amazon ECS

• Summarize operations in the cloud
• 4 functions of operations and their domains
• Review operations automation and relevant support tools

• Course review and key takeaways
• Summarize and reinforce AWS best practices for migrating
• Hands-On Lab: Automating Application Deployments

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

The practical exercises are performed in prepared working environments available via web browser – no software needs to be installed. The course material is in English, spoken language can be in german or english. Other languages like spanish, portuguese or french, please contact us under training@tecracer.de