Migration to AWS

Migration to AWS introduction delivers a classroom-style training with simple analogies, explains the why behind cloud technology, and blends whiteboard demos and slides to connect learners with practical business benefits.

Explore AWS migration with the three phases mobilize, migrate, and modernize. Learn the Migration Acceleration Program and core tools like migration evaluator, application discovery service, and migration hub.

Understand the access phase in cloud migration by capturing a current snapshot of assets, configurations, performance data, and the cmdb to build a business case.

Compare cloud readiness tools CART and MRA, contrasting self-service readiness with partner-driven deep assessment, and learn how outputs like score charts, radar charts, heat maps, and PowerPoint presentations guide migration decisions.

Explore migration evaluator, also known as TSO Logic, for on-prem inventory, data collection, and quick insight reports that inform a Migration Portfolio Assessment business case.

Learn how the AWS application discovery service collects server and database data, maps dependencies, and supports agent-based or agentless collection, storing data in Migration Hub.

Compare application discovery service and migration evaluator, learn self-service versus managed deployment, and review agent-based and agentless data collection, storage, and database support in migration workflows.

Learn to deploy application discovery service during a migration immersion day, install ADS agents on on-prem Linux servers via a bastion host, and enable Athena export for analytics.

Group servers into applications in the migration hub to track each application, then use Athena with the glue data catalog to query hostnames and IPs for migration planning.

Analyze how migration portfolio assessment guides the assess and mobilize phases, normalize data, estimate total cost of ownership, provide EC2 and database recommendations, and plan migration waves.

See how migration evaluator and application discovery service feed data into Migration Hub and Migration Portfolio Assessment, enabling an integrated inventory for the assess and mobilize phase.

Explore how AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch support the assess and mobilize phase by collecting inventory, monitoring performance, and enabling patching and change management during cloud migration planning.

Explore how a landing zone frames a well governed, scalable AWS multi-account environment for migrating workloads, with AWS Control Tower providing a wizard-driven setup for greenfield or brownfield deployments.

Master AWS Control Tower to set up a well-governed landing zone with guardrails, an account factory, and a centralized dashboard for security, compliance, and auditing.

Explore how AWS service catalog curates templates (products) into portfolios, enabling admins to deploy secure building blocks like VPCs, MySQL databases, and secure S3 buckets via cloud formation.

Explore AWS perspective guidance for migration and modernization, outlining strategies, guides, and patterns to plan workload and data migrations using well-architected practices and tools.

Explore the seven Rs of migration—relocate, rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain—with practical cloud examples like VMware Cloud on AWS, rehosting to EC2, and Aurora.

Relocate VMware workloads from on-prem to VMware cloud on AWS using hypervisor-level lift and shift. Preserve the base layer while exploring cloud native features and hybrid cloud options.

Rehost moves an on-prem application to the cloud with minimal changes, using lift-and-shift to an EC2 instance. It preserves the architecture and storage but may not leverage cloud-native features.

Explore how the application migration service enables lift-and-shift migrations of physical, virtual, and cloud servers to AWS with non-disruptive testing and minimal downtime.

Discover how to use the AWS Application Migration Service to rehost and replatform, configure templates, import inventory, set up source servers, and manage replication credentials.

Install the replication agent on source servers via a bastion host. Configure access keys and monitor initial sync in the Application Migration Service to prepare launch templates and volumes.

Explore how AWS application migration service replicates servers, manages snapshots and volumes, tests and cuts over to EC2 using migration hub and templates for end-to-end migration.

Replatforming moves on-prem applications and databases to a cloud, with minimal architecture changes, enabling auto scaling, managed storage, and automation via AWS DMS and RDS.

Master a three-phase approach to database migration: assess, mobilize, migrate and modernize. Explore DMS, Fleet Advisor, SCT for homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations, and transaction logs with CDC.

Explore AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for migrating relational databases, data warehouses, and NoSQL stores between on-premises and cloud—using endpoints, replication instances, and migration jobs with full load and CDC.

Learn to migrate a homogeneous Microsoft SQL Server database to Amazon RDS using AWS DMS, including CloudFormation setup, replication instance, and source and target endpoints with CDC.

Explore serverless database migration in aws dms, where replication tasks auto scale with minimum and maximum capacity, with cloudwatch monitoring, eliminating replication instance maintenance.

Learn how the schema conversion tool SCT converts schemas for heterogeneous migrations, mapping source to destination engines, and how DMS handles the actual data transfer.

Learn how to migrate from sql server to aurora mysql using the aws schema conversion tool. The demo covers installation, assessment, schema conversion, and preparing for dms data transfer.

Explore the AWS DMs schema conversion tool, a web version of SCT that converts schemas and migrates data in a managed, serverless migration project using instance profiles and data providers.

Explore the DMS Fleet Advisor feature to assess on-premises databases, generate inventory and performance metrics, and receive AWS migration recommendations with cost estimates using a built-in pricing calculator.

Refactor your monolith into microservices to boost availability and automation, using Migration Hub refactor spaces to safely route traffic and incrementally rewrite with cloud infrastructure and services.

Repurchase accelerates cloud migration by replacing legacy systems with consumption-based or SaaS offerings, enabling pay-as-you-go pricing, and using AWS Marketplace to drop-and-shop for cloud solutions.

Learn how to retire and decommission unused on-prem resources during AWS migration, using CloudWatch, Systems Manager, and managed directory services while managing dependencies and change control.

Retain on prem or in colocation as part of the seven Rs, revisiting apps and delaying migration to AWS. Evaluate upgrades, dependencies, and business value for on prem retention.

Learn how to choose an AWS migration strategy by combining rehost and replatform with options like relocate, repurchase, refactor, retire, or retain, guided by complexity, time, and cost.

Plan data migration to AWS by mapping on-prem and cloud storage to S3, EFS, FSX, and EBS. Explore using DataSync, Storage Gateway, Transfer Family, and Snow Family.

Learn how AWS DataSync uses an agent, locations, and tasks to move data to S3, EFS, or FSX from on-prem or other clouds.

Learn to deploy and configure AWS DataSync with an on-prem agent, connect SMB shares to an S3 destination, and run incremental transfers with verification.

Explore AWS storage gateway to enable a hybrid on-prem and cloud storage, exposing file, tape, and volume gateways with caching and standard protocols.

Set up and activate an AWS storage gateway, deploy an ESXi VM, and publish a Linux host as an S3 file gateway using NFS with a cache and S3 bucket.

Explore how AWS transfer family enables cloud-based managed data transfer using FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and AS2 to move data into S3 or EFS, with endpoints, identity providers, and workflows.

Configure an AWS Transfer Family server, enable sftp or ftp, and route transfers to an S3 bucket using a key-pair user for secure testing.

Explore the AWS Snow Family for offline data transfer and rugged edge compute, from Snow Cone to Snowball Edge and Snowmobile, with encryption and S3 import/export.

Navigate large scale migration challenges by coordinating multi-team efforts, managing time constraints, and automating repetitive tasks with processes, training, and the right tools for cutover and verification.

Explore the AWS cloud migration factory, a deployable solution (not a service) that automates large-scale rehosting by coordinating through a CloudFormation template, a front end, waves, and serverless components.

Explore the migration hub orchestrator to automate large-scale cloud migrations on AWS by coordinating templates and workflows for rehost and replatform tasks, using discovery services and an application migration service.

Complete migration training covers assessment, mobilize, migrate and modernize, and explains migration methodologies and tools, with workshops to practice and prepare for interviews and certification.

Discover how Amazon CloudWatch enables monitoring of metrics, logs, and events across AWS and on-premises, using default and custom metrics to build dashboards and track EC2 and load balancer health.

Learn to collect custom metrics and logs with the unified CloudWatch agent on EC2 and on prem, configure via wizard, and secure access with IAM roles.

Learn how CloudWatch alarms monitor metrics over a window, breach thresholds, and trigger actions or notifications via SNS, with email, SMS, and HTTP endpoints, composite alarms, and auto scaling.

Centralize all logs with CloudWatch Logs and the unified agent. Create log groups and streams, filter 404 errors, and trigger alarms.

Discover how AWS Systems Manager acts as an operations hub for patching, inventory, and automation across EC2, on-prem, and hybrid environments, using managed nodes and agents.

Explore how AWS SSM session manager lets you access EC2 instances without open ports or bastion hosts, via browser or CLI, with encrypted, auditable sessions.

Explore how AWS Systems Manager documents, written in json or yaml, enable automated actions across instances—run commands, inventory, and service management—with cross-platform, predefined and user-created documents.

Explore AWS SSM state manager to automate keeping resources in a defined state using associations, automation documents, targets, and schedules for updates, patches, and startup tasks.

Explore how AWS SSM patch manager centralizes patching for Windows and Linux, creates baselines, applies auto-approval rules, and schedules patching with run commands and cron expressions.

Use AWS SSM run command to execute tasks on managed instances from console, command line, or SDK, including installing CloudWatch agent and configuring Docker across Linux, Windows, and Mac.

Learn how AWS Systems Manager Change Manager enforces enterprise change management with templates, approvals, and audit trails, and how to create runbooks, set maintenance windows, and designate IAM approvers.