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Migrating To AWS Course Overview
This intermediate-level course teaches you to implement strategies for planning and migrating your existing workloads to the AWS cloud. You will learn about application migration planning and design, portfolio discovery, migration execution, and post-migration validation and application optimization.
Migrating to AWS course provides you an overview of migration planning principles and best practices and about migration design and implementation, with hands-on labs to reinforce concepts. You will learn how to apply each step of the migration process and enhances your ability perform successful migration to the AWS cloud.
Course Curriculum
Audience
Migrating to AWS course is intended for:
- Solutions architects
- Software engineers
- IT project managers
- Operation leads
- Other individuals involved in the planning and running of migration projects
Eligibility Criteria
Before applying to this course, candidates are required to have:
- Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
- Completed the AWS Technical Essentials (for IT project managers) or Architecting on AWS (IT professionals) classroom training
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification (optional)
Course Objectives
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
Training Options
ONLINE TRAINING
Instructor-Led Session
- 3 days Instructor-led Online Training
- Experienced Subject Matter Experts
- Approved and Quality Ensured Training Material
- 24*7 Leaner Assistance And Support
CORPORATE TRAINING
Customized to your team's need
- Customized Training Across Various Domains
- Instructor-Led Skill Development Program
- Ensure Maximum ROI for Corporates
- 24*7 Learner Assistance and Support
Course Outline
- Course introduction
- 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
- Summarize the activities and goals of the assess 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)
- Summarize the mobilize phase of the process
- Discuss the eight unique migration-related workstreams
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Summarize the various discovery tools available
- Distinguish which tools are best to use based on scenario
- Hands-On Lab: Gathering Application Data Necessary for Migration
- Describe the planning and design process
- Summarize how to set up a migration factory
- Choose and finalize an application migration strategy
- 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
- 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
- Discuss additional migration support options
- Summarize AWS Managed Services and AWS Marketplace
- Describe SAP on AWS and services offered for Windows
- Discuss the process and benefits of integrating, validating, and cutting over applications
- 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
- Summarize operations in the cloud
- Discuss four 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
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FAQ's
AWS skill-sets open doors to excellent career opportunities as major organizations have adopted AWS as their cloud computing platform. Vinsys has exceptional resources to train candidates on the AWS platform with a focus on hands-on training experience. The training includes a blend of hands-on learning and in-depth knowledge-sharing that ensures a great learning experience. Professionals trained at Vinsys demonstrate the necessary practical knowledge and skills required for on-the-job performance.
Migrating to AWS is a 3-day course that prepares you for successful planning and execution of migration to the AWS cloud. It is an intermediate-level course designed for solution architects & software engineers who work in the AWS cloud environment.
Candidates aspiring to take this course, are expected to have:
- Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
- Completed the AWS Technical Essentials (for IT project managers) or Architecting on AWS (IT professionals) classroom training
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification (optional)
This is a 3-day course.
Initially, no coding experience is required. Many tasks can be done in AWS without coding skills. In case you want to build applications, you will need to learn application coding.
In case you fail an exam, you can retake the certification exam after 14 days. There is no limit on number of attempts but you will have to pay the full registration fee for each attempt.