Day 1
Module 1: What Is a Cloud Migration?
- Summarize the drivers and desired outcomes of a cloud migration
- Identify the elements of a successful migration journey
- Describe the three-phase AWS migration process
Module 2: Assessing Migration Readiness
- Summarize the activities and goals of the assessment phase
- Evaluate tools for assessing your organization’s cloud readiness
- Describe Migration Readiness Assessments (MRAs) and their importance
- Group Exercise: Assess cloud migration readiness with AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)
Module 3: Preparing for a Migration and Understanding Related Workstreams
- Summarize the mobilization phase of the process
- Discuss the eight unique migration-related workstreams
Module 4: Discovering Landing Zones and Their Benefits
- Explain the function of a landing zone
- Discuss best practices for creating a custom landing zone
- Describe how you would use AWS Control Tower to create a landing zone
Module 5: Building a Landing Zone
- Summarize the process of building a landing zone
- Determine the best multi-account structure, governance policies, and connectivity plan for a
landing zone
- 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
- Explain the activities of the detailed portfolio discovery workstream
- Describe how to assess an application’s migration readiness
- Summarize the seven migration strategies
- Group Exercise: Choose the best strategy (scenario-based)
Day 2
Module 7: Understanding and Choosing Portfolio Discovery Tools
- Summarize the various discovery tools available
- Distinguish which tools are best to use based on the scenario
- Hands-On Lab: Gathering Application Data Necessary for Migration
Module 8: Planning and Designing a Migration
- Describe the planning and design process
- Summarize how to set up a migration factory
- Choose and finalize an application migration strategy
Module 9: Performing the Migration to AWS
- Explain the server migration process
- Discuss the various migration automation and governance tools available
- Evaluate server migration tools for compatibility with your environment
- Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Application to AWS
Module 10: Understanding Database and Data Migration Services
- Summarize the significance of database and data migration
- Discuss the various data migration tools available
- Hands-On Lab: Migrating an Existing Database to Amazon Aurora
Day 3
Module 11: Understanding Additional Migration Support Options
- Discuss additional migration support options
- Summarize AWS Managed Services and AWS Marketplace
- Describe SAP on AWS and services offered for Windows
Module 12: Integrating, Validating, and Cutting Over Applications
- Discuss the process and benefits of integrating, validating, and cutting over applications
Module 13: Modernizing and Optimizing an Application Migration
- Identify post-migration opportunities for modernization and optimization
- Understand cost and security optimization processes
- Explore tools available to support these processes
- Hands-On Lab: Optimizing an Application with Amazon S3 and Amazon ECS
Module 14: Understanding Operations Tools, Integration Testing, and Automation
- Summarize operations in the cloud
- Discuss four functions of operations and their domains
- Review operations automation and relevant support tools
Module 15: Migration Best Practices
- Course review and key takeaways
- Summarize and reinforce AWS best practices for migrating
- Hands-On Lab: Automating Application Deployments