Migrating to AWS, v3.3

Instructor: Scott Jones
Email: [e-mail]

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• Path to this page:
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• Path to our classroom:
  https://us-east-1.student.classrooms.aws.training/class/tFi9hYpf7QVHY4Ks3iz8HH
• Migrating to AWS - Online Course Supplement: https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/8834/migrating-to-aws-ocs

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Essential Resources

• Amazon Prescriptive Guidance on Migration
• AWS Migration Patterns Library
• AWS Solutions for Migration and Modernization
• Architecture Best Practices for Migration
• AWS Migration Workshops

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  Module 1: What Is a Cloud Migration?

Resources

• Business Value on AWS (Migration outcomes): https://d1.awsstatic.com/executive-insights/en_US/ebook-business-value-on-aws.pdf
• Elements of a successful cloud journey:
  • Executive sponsorship
  • Cloud-first strategy
  • Organizational change
  • Cloud center of excellence
  • Experiment
• Mobilize your organization to accelerate large-scale migrations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-migration/overview.html(opens in a new tab)
• AWS Migration Acceleration Program: https://aws.amazon.com/migration-acceleration-program/

Videos

• AWS re:Invent 2018: Optimizing Costs as You Scale on AWS (ENT302): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XA08hhRVFQ
• AWS re:Invent 2019: Managing your cloud financials as you scale on AWS (ENT204-R1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChupgIbZr5Q

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• AWS Foundations: Strategies and Tools to Perform Large-Scale Migrations: https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=49647
• Migration Immersion Day: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/a033522c-f256-40f9-9ecb-5b76a71589bc/en-US

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  Module 2: Assessing Migration Readiness

Resources

• Create a Cloud Center of Excellence: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/cost-optimization-laying-the-foundation/cloud-center-of-excellence.html
• An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html
• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Transformation Domains and Foundational Capabilities: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/accelerating-business-outcomes.html
• The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Whitepapers:
  • Business Perspective
  • People Perspective
  • Governance Perspective
  • Platform Perspective
  • Security Perspective
  • Operations Perspective
• AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART): https://cloudreadiness.amazonaws.com/#/cart
• AWS CART Sample Report: https://cloudreadiness.amazonaws.com/bfd2391ccfbac30513c6cc8b5c40e3ae.pdf
• AWS Migration Acceleration Program: https://aws.amazon.com/migration-acceleration-program/
• Migration Readiness Assessment: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-readiness/welcome.html
• Migration Readiness Assessment Tool: https://a2t.accelerate.amazonaws.com/
• AWS Migration Portfolio Assessment (MPA): https://mpa-proserve.amazonaws.com/
• AWS Migration Hub: https://aws.amazon.com/migration-hub/
• AWS Migration Hub flat-file import: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/latest/userguide/discovery-import.html
• AWS Migration Hub EC2 recommendations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub/latest/ug/ec2-recommendations.html
• Migration Evaluator: https://aws.amazon.com/migration-evaluator/
• Sample Migration Evaluator Business Case Summary: https://d1.awsstatic.com/asset-repository/tso-logic/MigrationEvaluator_TSOLogic_AWS_BusinessCaseSample.pdf
• Migrating container-based workloads to AWS:
  • Container Migration Methodology: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/container-migration-methodology.pdf
  • Container Powered AWS Migration in Action: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/container-powered-aws-migration-in-action/
  • Migrate your Applications to Containers at Scale: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/migrate-your-applications-to-containers-at-scale/

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• AWS Foundations: Strategies and Tools to Perform Large-Scale Migrations: https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=49647
• Migration Considerations for Containers: https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL_OTT_WEBINAR_2021-VW-s12-CON-DG-OPS_Migration-Considerations-for-Containers.html

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  Module 3: Preparing for a Migration and Understanding Related Workstreams

Resources

• Mobilize phase overview - links to workstreams as well: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-migration/mobilize-phase.html
  • Detailed business case
  • Detailed portfolio discovery
  • Application migration (migration experience)
  • Migration governance
  • Landing zone
  • Security, risk, and compliance
  • Operations
  • People: skills, culture, change, and leadership
• Improving security as part of accelerated data center migrations: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/improving-security-as-part-of-accelerated-data-center-migrations/
• AWS Pricing Estimator: https://calculator.aws/#/
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Comparison - Sample Report: http://digiblog.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/app/20161108084144/Cloud_BusinessModell_AWS_Beispiel.pdf

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  Modules 4 & 5: Landing Zones and Their Benefits & Building a Landing Zone

Resources

• Setting up a secure and scalable multi-account AWS environment/What is a landing zone?: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-aws-environment/welcome.html
• Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/organizing-your-aws-environment/organizing-your-aws-environment.html
• AWS Organizations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/organizing-your-aws-environment/aws-organizations.html
• Building a Scalable and Secure Multi-VPC AWS Network Infrastructure: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/building-scalable-secure-multi-vpc-network-infrastructure/welcome.html
• AWS Control Tower: https://aws.amazon.com/controltower/
• Guardrails in AWS Control Tower: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/mandatory-guardrails.html
• AWS Control Tower Factory for Terraform (AFT): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/aft-getting-started.html
• Customizations for AWS Control Tower solution: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/customizations-for-aws-control-tower/
• AWS Service Catalog Reference Architectures: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-service-catalog-reference-architectures

Videos

• Provisioning Users in AWS Control Tower Using AWS SSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_n9xN5mg1g

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• Migrating to AWS - Online Course Supplement: https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/internal/view/elearning/8834/migrating-to-aws-ocs
• Landing Zone Accelerator Immersion Days: https://catalog.workshops.aws/landing-zone-accelerator/en-US

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  Module 6: Discovering the Portfolio and Understanding Migration Strategies

Resources

• Understanding your Application Readiness: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/understanding-application-readiness-when-migrating-to-aws.pdf?did=wp_card&trk=wp_card.
• AWS Migration Portfolio Assessment (MPA): https://mpa-proserve.amazonaws.com/
• AWS Prescriptive Guidance for Migration
• AWS Migration Pattern Library: https://apg-library.amazonaws.com/

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• Introduction to AWS Application Discovery Service: https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16432

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  Module 7: Understanding and Choosing Portfolio Discovery Tools

Resources

• AWS Migration Portfolio Assessment (MPA): https://mpa-proserve.amazonaws.com/
• Migration Evaluator: https://aws.amazon.com/migration-evaluator/
• Migration Evaluator Sample Report: https://d1.awsstatic.com/asset-repository/tso-logic/MigrationEvaluator_TSOLogic_AWS_BusinessCaseSample.pdf
• AWS Application Discovery Service: https://aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/
• AWS Application Discovery Agent: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/latest/userguide/discovery-agent.html
• Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (VMware vCenter): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/latest/userguide/agentless-collector.html
• AWS Migration Hub: https://aws.amazon.com/migration-hub/
• Working with Data Exploration in Amazon Athena: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/latest/userguide/working-with-data-athena.html
• AWS Systems Manager: https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/

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  Module 8: Planning and Designing a Migration

Resources

• Designing a Successful Pilot Phase for Your Cloud Migration: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/designing-a-successful-pilot-phase-for-your-cloud-migration/
• Application prioritization criteria: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/application-portfolio-assessment-guide/iterating-prioritization-criteria.html
• Migration Factory: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-migration/migrations-phase.html
• Automating Large-scale Server Migrations with Cloud Migration Factory: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-factory-cloudendure/welcome.html
• AWS Migration Pattern Library: https://apg-library.amazonaws.com/
• AWS Prescriptive Guidance for Migration

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  Module 9: Performing the Migration to AWS

Resources

• AWS Application Migration Service Major Updates: Import and Export Feature, Source Server Migration Metrics Dashboard, and Additional Post-Launch Actions (March 27, 2023) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-application-migration-service-major-updates-import-and-export-feature-source-server-migration-metrics-dashboard-and-additional-post-launch-actions/
• What Is the AWS Application Migration Service?: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mgn/latest/ug/what-is-application-migration-service.html
• How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/how-to-use-the-new-aws-application-migration-service-for-lift-and-shift-migrations/
• How to migrate on-premises workloads with AWS Application Migration Service: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/how-migrate-on-premises-workloads-aws-application-migration-service/
• Getting Started With VMware Cloud on AWS https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/com.vmware.vmc-aws.getting-started/GUID-3D741363-F66A-4CF9-80EA-AA2866D1834E.html
• VMware Cloud on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/faqs/
• VMware Reference Architectures: https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/resources/
• ATADATA from Deloitte for server migrations: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/topics/atadata-automated-cloud-management-platform.html

Videos

• AWS MGN service architecture and network architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8geVzmmRo

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• AWS Application Migration Workshop: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/c6bdf8dc-d2b2-4dbd-b673-90836e954745/en-US
• VMware Cloud on AWS Immersion Day: https://workshops.aws/card/VMware
• Near-zero-downtime migrations to AWS: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/b0d12df4-1f0f-4a58-9410-bb038b0c7a67/en-US

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  Module 10: Understanding Database and Data Migration Services

Resources

• Migrating Database Applications to AWS https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Migration/migrating-applications-to-aws.pdf
• AWS Storage Gateway: https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/
• AWS DataSync FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/datasync/faqs/
• AWS Snow Family: https://aws.amazon.com/snow/
• AWS Database Migration Service https://aws.amazon.com/dms/
• AWS Schema Conversion Tool:
  • Getting Started: https://aws.amazon.com/dms/schema-conversion-tool/
  • Supported Conversions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/SchemaConversionTool/latest/userguide/CHAP_Welcome.html
  • Diagnostic Scripts: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_SupportScripts.html
• AWS Database Migration Service Best Practices: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/RDS/AWS_Database_Migration_Service_Best_Practices.pdf
• Migrating Your Databases to Amazon Aurora: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/RDS/Migrating your databases to Amazon Aurora.pdf
• Windows to Linux Replatforming Assistant for Microsoft SQL Server Databases: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/replatform-sql-server.html
• AWS Database Migration Service Automation Framework: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/aws-dms-automation-framework/

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• Introduction to Database Migration: https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=43988
• AWS Database Migration Workshop: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/77bdff4f-2d9e-4d68-99ba-248ea95b3aca/en-US

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  Module 11: Understanding Additional Migration Support Options

Resources

• AWS Managed Services Partners: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-services/partners/
• Product and Service Integrations with AWS Service Catalog: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/latest/adminguide/integrations.html
• aws-samples/aws-service-catalog-reference-architectures: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-service-catalog-reference-architectures
• Resources for Windows Migrations:
  • AWS Directory Services: https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/
  • Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows/
• Resources for SAP Migrations:
  • Amazon EC2 Instance Types for SAP: https://aws.amazon.com/sap/instance-types/
  • SAP HANA on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/sap-hana/
  • Migrating SAP Workloads to the AWS Cloud with AWS SMS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/awsforsap/migrating-sap-workloads-to-the-aws-cloud-with-aws-sms/
  • Migrating SAP HANA to AWS: Patterns for AWS Migrations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/sap-hana/migrating-sap-hana-to-aws.html
  • FAST SAP Migrations to AWS with the SAP Rapid Migration Test Program: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/awsforsap/fast-sap-migrations-to-aws-with-the-sap-rapid-migration-test-program/
• AWS Partner ServiceNow: https://partners.amazonaws.com/partners/001E000000UfZBzIAN/ServiceNow
• AWS License Manager: https://aws.amazon.com/license-manager

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• SAP on AWS Immersion Day workshops: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/754ba343-2704-404a-8abe-be7b21c4d9d5/en-US
• SAP HANA On AWS Advanced Workshop: https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/c46438cd-aaad-4060-943a-68160bafceff/en-US

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  Module 13: Modernizing and Optimizing Applications

Resources

• AWS Well-Architected Framework: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/
• Strategy for modernizing applications in the AWS Cloud: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-modernizing-applications/welcome.html
• Microservices on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/microservices/
• Implementing Microservices on AWS: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/microservices-on-aws.pdf
• AWS Prescriptive Guidance - Modernization Patterns: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/modernization-pattern-list.html
• AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub-refactor-spaces/latest/userguide/what-is-mhub-refactor-spaces.html
• AWS App2Container: https://aws.amazon.com/app2container/
• Serverless on AWS -Build and run applications without thinking about servers: https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/

Hands-on Workshops and Free Digital Training

• Well Architected Workshops:
  • Operational Excellence: https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/operational-excellence/
  • Security: https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/security/
  • Reliability: https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/reliability/
  • Performance: https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/performance-efficiency/
  • Cost Optimization: https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/cost/
  • Sustainability: https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/sustainability/
• Modernization Workshops: https://www.workshops.aws/categories/Modernization

Videos

• AWS re:Invent 2018: Using DevOps, Microservices, & Serverless to Accelerate Innovation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXl6Bumksnk&t=562

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  Module 14: Understanding Operations Tools, Integration Testing, and Automation

Resources

• Infrastructure as Code: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/DevOps/infrastructure-as-code.pdf?trk=wp_c
• AWS CloudFormation Best Practices: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html
• AWS Config: https://aws.amazon.com/config
• CI/CD for Serverless and Containerized Applications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ewawuL-IY
• CI/CD for Containers: A Way Forward for Your DevOps Pipeline: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cicd-for-containers-a-way-forward-for-your-devops-pipeline?qid=e659617f-abb4-4729-8dcc-5be52963e771&v=&b=&from_sea
• AWS OpsWorks - Automate Operations with Chef and Puppet: https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/
• AWS Systems Manager Service: https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/
• AWS Quick Starts: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

Hands-on:

• Learn AWS CloudFormation best practices and how to build a Quick Start, the right way: https://workshop.quickstart.awspartner.com/

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  Module 15: Migration Best Practices

Resources

• AWS Ramp-Up Guide: Migration: https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/ramp-up_guides/Ramp-Up_Guide_Migration.pdf
• AWS Prescriptive Guidance: Mobilize your organization to accelerate large-scale migrations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-migration/welcome.html
• AWS Prescriptive Guidance: A tools catalog for accelerating migration with automation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/welcome.html
• Migration tool comparison: https://aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/migration-tools/
• Architecture Best Practices for Migration: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/migration/

Hands-on:

• Migrate with AWS workshop: https://application-migration-with-aws.workshop.aws/