Assessment and Planning

• Define Objectives: Establish clear objectives for the migration, such as cost reduction, scalability, improved performance, or disaster recovery.
• Inventory and Analysis: Conduct a comprehensive inventory of the current IT environment, including applications, databases, servers, storage, and network configurations.
• Application Dependency Mapping: Identify and map dependencies between applications and services to ensure all components are migrated without disruption.
• Cost Analysis: Estimate the cost of migration and ongoing cloud operations. Use AWS pricing tools to forecast expenses.
• Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and challenges associated with migration and develop mitigation strategies.

Design Phase

• Cloud Architecture Design: Design the target AWS architecture, considering scalability, availability, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Choose Services: Select AWS services that match the needs of your applications (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda).
  • Network Design: Plan the network architecture, including VPC design, subnets, security groups, and VPN/Direct Connect for hybrid setups.
• Security and Compliance: Develop a security plan, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, logging, and monitoring.
• Migration Strategy: Choose a migration strategy (e.g., lift and shift, re-platform, re-factor) based on application requirements and complexity.
• Disaster Recovery Plan: Design a disaster recovery plan to ensure business continuity during and after the migration.

Preparation Phase pointers

• Skill Development
• AWS Account Setup
• Pilot Testing
• Data Migration Tools

Migration Execution steps

• Data Migration
• Application Migration
  • Lift and Shift
  • Re-platforming
  • Re-factoring
• Testing
• Monitoring and Optimization

Post-Migration Phase steps

• Validation
• Optimization
• Decommissioning
• Documentation and Knowledge Transfer

Continuous Improvement steps

• Ongoing Monitoring and Management
• Security and Compliance
• Feedback Loop

Tools and Services

• AWS Migration Hub: Centralized platform for tracking migration progress.
• AWS Server Migration Service (SMS): Automates the migration of on-premises servers.
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS): Simplifies database migration.
• AWS Snowball/Glacier: For transferring large amounts of data.
• AWS CloudEndure: Provides continuous replication, automated machine conversion, and orchestration for applications.

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