Course Information
- 27 Jul 2026 (Mon) - 29 Jul 2026 (Wed) 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
(Early Bird HK9000
Standard HK18000)
Course Overview
Course description
Migrating to AWS focuses on planning and migrating existing workloads to the AWS Cloud. The
course covers various cloud migration strategies with a detailed discussion on each phase of the
migration process, including portfolio discovery, application migration planning and design, migration
execution, and post-migration validation and application optimization. This course is designed for
Solutions Architects and Engineers who perform cloud migrations, have an understanding of core
AWS services and design patterns covered in Architecting on AWS. This course is also available to IT
project managers involved in the planning of those migrations who have completed AWS Technical
Essentials.
Course objectives
This course is designed to teach you how to:
- Explain the various cloud migration strategies
- Assess cloud migration readiness
- Discover your portfolio and plan for migration
- Plan and design your application migration strategy
- Perform and validate application migration to the cloud
- Optimize your applications and operations after migrating to the cloud
What You’ll Learn
Day One
Module 1: Migrating to AWS – Overview
Migration process "Mental Model"
Cloud Migration Strategies
Comparing Cloud Migration Strategies
Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE)
Cloud Migration Readiness Assessment
AWS Cloud Migration Process
Group activity: Creating a high-level migration plan
Module 2: Discovery and analysis
Migration Process Roadmap
AWS Migration Methodology
AWS Application Discovery Service
Portfolio Analysis
Hands-on lab 1: Performing discovery
Module 3: Migration planning and design (part I)
AWS Migration Hub
Pricing and Availability
Process
Group activity: Creating a detailed migration plan
Day Two
Module 3: Migration planning and design (continued)
Application migration ordering
Application prioritization criteria
Defining success criteria
Migration methodology
Designing for migration
Module 4: Migration, integration, and validation
Migration considerations
Data migration
AWS Snow Services
AWS Data Migration Service (DMS)
Server migration
Demonstration: Server migration service
Hands-on lab 2 : Migrating databases to AWS EC2
Hands-on lab 3 : Migrating databases to Amazon Aurora
Module 5: Operations and optimization
On premises vs. cloud
IT operations
Optimizing in the AWS Cloud
Case study: Optimizing an application