Course Overview
This intermediate-level AWS course provides practical knowledge for planning and migrating existing workloads to the AWS Cloud. It covers migration drivers, readiness assessment, portfolio discovery, landing zones, migration strategies, and application migration planning.
Participants learn how to perform server, database, and data migrations, validate and cut over applications, and apply modernization, optimization, operations, and automation practices. The course includes hands-on labs covering application data discovery, application migration, database migration to Amazon Aurora, application optimization, and automated deployments. The course is listed by AWS under the Migrate and Transfer training category with a duration of 3 days.
Course Objective
- Recognize common business and technical drivers for migrating to the cloud
- Summarize the three phases of the AWS migration process and their associated activities
- Describe AWS architecture, migration tools, and migration best practices
- Distinguish between cloud migration strategies and determine when each is appropriate
- Determine an organization’s application migration readiness
- Discover an application portfolio and gather data required for migration
- Plan and design application migration strategies
- Perform and validate application migrations to AWS
- Optimize applications and operations after migration
- Apply migration, modernization, operations, and automation practices
Pre-requisites
- Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure, including hardware and software
- Completion of AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS is recommended
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification is optional
Course Curriculum
