Course Outline
1. Migration Strategy and Business Drivers
- Motivations for cloud migration and criteria for success
- Migration patterns: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain
- Defining objectives, key performance indicators (KPIs), and organizational roles for government migration programs
2. Discovery, Assessment, and Planning
- Inventory collection, dependency mapping, and application grouping for government systems
- Assessing cloud readiness and determining target resource sizes
- Prioritizing applications, structuring migration waves, and conducting risk assessments
3. Network, Security, and Landing Zone Considerations
- VPC design, connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect), and hybrid deployment patterns for government environments
- Identity management, access control, encryption, and governance during the migration process for government
- Account strategy, landing zones, and baseline security guardrails for government operations
4. Server Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
- MGN architecture, replication processes, and replication settings for government systems
- Testing replicated servers, performing test cutovers, and validating applications in a government context
- Final cutover procedures, post-cutover checks, and rollback planning for government operations
5. Database Migration and Data Transfer
- DMS concepts: full load, change data capture (CDC), and continuous replication for government databases
- Schema conversion considerations and data validation strategies for government applications
- Bulk transfer options: DataSync, Snow family, and secure network transfer methods for government data
6. Application Modernization and Refactoring Options
- When to replatform or refactor using containers, serverless architectures, and managed services for government applications
- Design patterns for modernized architectures (microservices, event-driven) in a government context
- Gradual migration approaches: strangler pattern and hybrid coexistence for government systems
7. Testing, Cutover, and Operational Readiness
- Defining test plans, performance benchmarking, and quality assurance (QA) validation for government applications
- Cutover coordination, DNS management, and traffic switch strategies for government systems
- Operational runbooks, backup procedures, monitoring, and incident readiness for government operations
8. Cost Optimization, Performance Tuning, and Post-Migration Tasks
- Rightsizing, savings plans, and cost governance after migration for government budgets
- Performance tuning, autoscaling, and storage lifecycle management for government systems
- Post-migration review, optimization roadmap, and documentation of lessons learned for government operations
9. Hands-on Workshop: End-to-End Migration Scenario
- Perform discovery and plan a migration wave for sample workloads in a government context
- Replicate a server with MGN and execute a test cutover for government systems
- Migrate a sample database with DMS and validate results for government applications
- Complete final cutover, validate services, and document outcomes for government operations
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A fundamental understanding of IT infrastructure and networking
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies and operating systems (Windows/Linux)
- Basic knowledge of database management and storage concepts
Audience
- Cloud architects and engineers for government projects
- Infrastructure and operations teams supporting federal initiatives
- IT managers and project leads planning migrations for government agencies
Testimonials (5)
Trainer had good grasp of concepts
Josheel - Verizon Connect
Course - Amazon Redshift
The practice part.
Radu - Ness Digital Engineering
Course - AWS: A Hands-on Introduction to Cloud Computing
The training was more practical
Siphokazi Biyana - Vodacom SA
Course - Kubernetes on AWS
The trainer knew exactly what they were speaking about.
Madumetsa Msomi - BMW
Course - AWS DevOps Engineers
All good, nothing to improve
