Migrating to AWS

This course is for individuals who seek an understanding of how to plan and migrate existing workloads to the AWS Cloud. You will learn about various cloud migration strategies and how to apply each step of the migration process, including portfolio discovery, application migration planning and design, conducting a migration, and post-migration validation and application optimization. Hands-on labs reinforce learning, and each lab is designed to provide you with the understanding and foundation necessary to complete migration tasks in your organization.                                                                  

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 organizations 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

Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and software)

• Completed the AWS Technical Essentials or Architecting on AWS classroom training
• Achieved their AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification (optional)

Solutions architects

• Software engineers
• IT project managers
• Operation leads
• Other individuals involved in the planning and running of migration projects