AWS Migration Training Course: Move your applications and data to the Amazon cloud

The AWS Migration training course deals with the riskiest moment in the life of an information system: the one where it moves house. Data centre exit, hosting contract ending, hardware reaching end of life — the reasons vary, the difficulty does not. What sinks migrations is almost never the cutover technique; it is what nobody inventoried.

Over 3 days, you follow a migration end to end: discovery and dependency mapping, choosing a strategy for each application (the seven Rs: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, relocate, retire, retain), migrating servers with Application Migration Service, databases with DMS and its continuous replication, bulk data with DataSync and the Snow Family. Then the part everyone forgets: the cutover, the rollback plan if things go wrong, and post-migration optimisation — because an application that has merely been moved often costs more than it did before.

The course draws on the AWS Migration Acceleration Program and its three phases (assess, mobilise, migrate), and covers the migration portion of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) certification syllabus.

If AWS is new to you, our AWS Cloud Practitioner Training Course lays the groundwork, and our AWS Essential Services Training Course covers the target services. To design the destination architecture, see our AWS Solutions Architect Training Course then our AWS Advanced Architecture Training Course, which goes deep on hybrid connectivity and multi-account environments. Hardening the target belongs to our AWS Security Training Course, keeping the post-migration bill under control to our AWS FinOps Training Course, and migrating data warehouses to our AWS Data Engineer Training Course. To industrialise the deployment of the target infrastructure, our Terraform Fundamentals Training Course is a useful complement.

Sessions are guaranteed from a single registrant (except in cases of force majeure). A preliminary discussion takes place between the participant and/or a company representative to fully take into account the participant’s profile. Assessment: quizzes, role-play and practical exercises. A certificate of completion is issued at the end of the training. This training covers the migration portion of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) certification syllabus (exam not included). This training is part of our Cloud Computing Training Courses catalogue. Discover our other cloud training courses to master architectures, services and best practices on AWS, Azure and GCP. To get started on AWS, we recommend our AWS Cloud Practitioner Training Course as a prerequisite, which lays the foundations of the Amazon Cloud.

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Run the discovery phase: inventory, dependency mapping, prioritisation criteria.
• Choose the migration strategy suited to each application (the seven Rs) and own its consequences.
• Build a business case and estimate the real cost of the target.
• Migrate servers with AWS Application Migration Service.
• Migrate databases with DMS, including continuous replication (CDC).
• Transfer bulk data (DataSync, Snow Family).
• Organise the cutover, the rollback plan and post-migration optimisation.

• Some initial AWS experience is required: compute, storage and networking services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM) should already be familiar. The level of the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification is a sufficient base.
• Knowledge of your current information system — systems, databases, network — will be all the more useful given that the labs are built on realistic migration scenarios.
• Because every participant is unique, a personalised discussion with our expert allows us to design a training course perfectly aligned with their objectives.

• Architects and infrastructure engineers running a migration project to AWS.
• Systems and database administrators who must move existing workloads.
• Project managers and technical leads steering a data centre exit.
• Cloud consultants supporting migrations for their clients.