AWS Cloud Migration: AWS has experience assisting companies of all sizes in migrating workloads to the cloud, with over a million active customers and a global cloud presence.
Any workload – applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers – and even entire data centers – can be migrated to AWS from an on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other public clouds.
This blog post gives a walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of the AWS Migration training program that you must perform to learn this course.
Here’s a quick sneak-peak of how to start learning by doing Hands-on.
List of Labs that we include in Our training AWS Migration.
- Register for AWS Free Tier Account
- CloudWatch Create Billings Alarm & Service Limits
- Create And Connect To Windows EC2 Machine
- Create And Connect To Linux EC2 Machine
- Working with AWS IAM
- Create S3 Bucket, Upload & Access Files, And Host the Website
- Network Load Balancer
- Configure a Load Balancer And Autoscaling on EC2 Instances
- Create Custom Virtual, Private Cloud
- Create and Update Stacks Using CloudFormation
- Migrating an on-premises VM machine to the AWS environment
- Migrating a source DB, which will be from outside the AWS environment to target AWS RDS Aurora DB in the side AWS environment
- Speeding up a large-scale data migration to S3 by enabling S3 Acceleration
- Confirming how much data migration has been speeded up via a tool
- Migrating a monolithic application to AWS and then breaking it into microservices
Activity Guides:
Activity Guide 1: Register for AWS Free Tier Account
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers new users a free 12-month trial account to gain hands-on experience with all of the services offered by AWS. Amazon offers a variety of services that we can use with some limitations to gain hands-on experience and gain a better understanding of AWS Cloud services as well as regular business use.
With the AWS Free Tier account, we have a limited amount of time to use the services without being charged.
Check out: How To Create A Free AWS Account blog for the step-by-step procedure
Activity Guide 2: CloudWatch – Create Billing Alarm & Service Limits
AWS billing alerts can be enabled via Amazon CloudWatch. CloudWatch is an Amazon Web Services service that monitors all of your AWS account activity. CloudWatch, in addition to billing alerts, provides infrastructure for monitoring applications, logs, metrics collections, and other service metadata, as well as detecting activity in your AWS account usage.
You can schedule your alarms using a range of metrics provided by AWS CloudWatch. For instance, you may set up an alarm to alert you when a running instance’s CPU or memory utilization exceeds 90% or when the invoice total exceeds $100. We receive 10 alerts and 1,000 email notifications each month in an AWS free tier account.
In this activity guide, You will discover how to set up a billing alarm and the AWS service limitations.
Check out our blog on AWS Free Tier Account Services for more information.
Activity Guide 3: Create & Connect to Windows EC2 Machine
In order to launch instances running a variety of operating systems, load them up with your own desired application environment, control network access permissions, and execute the image on as many or as few computers as you like, you can utilize the console interfaces provided by Amazon EC2.
In this activity guide, you will learn how to create and connect to a Windows EC2 Instance Machine.
Activity Guide 4: Create & Connect to Linux EC2 Machine
A virtual server in Amazon’s EC2 for running applications on the Amazon Web Services infrastructure is known as an Amazon EC2 instance. To meet the needs of users, Amazon offers various types of instances with varying configurations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources.
In this activity guide, you will learn how to create and connect to an AWS Linux EC2 Instance.
Activity Guide 5: AWS Identity & Access Management(IAM)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an AWS service that allows you to securely control access to AWS resources. You can use the IAM service to manage a user who has been authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permission) to use a service/resource.
When you create an AWS account for the first time, you start with a single sign-in identity that has full access to all AWS services/resources in the account. This identity is known as the AWS Root user, and it can be accessed by logging in with the email address and password you used to create the account. We strongly advise you not to use the root user for any daily tasks, including administrative ones. Instead, use your root user only to create the IAM user and for billing purposes, then securely lock away your root account credentials and use that account for only a few service management tasks.
In this activity guide, You will learn how to create an IAM user, role, and Group and attach policies to it.
Activity Guide 6: Create S3 Bucket, Upload & Access a File, And Host a Website
Amazon Simple Storage Service is an object storage service that provides your data with scalability, durability, data availability, and performance. This means that customers of all sizes and industries can use S3 to store and protect any amount of data for a variety of use cases, including mobile apps, backup and restore, website hosting, archiving, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. Amazon S3 is a service that offers simple management tools to help you organize your data and configure fine-grained access controls to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance needs.
Amazon S3 is built to last for 99.999999999% (11 9’s) and stores data for millions of applications for businesses all over the world.
In this activity guide, You’ll learn how to make a bucket, upload and access files, and host your static website on Amazon S3.
Activity Guide 7: Network Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets in multiple Availability Zones, including Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions, and ensures that only healthy targets receive traffic. Elastic Load Balancing can balance traffic across a Region by routing it to healthy targets in different Availability Zones.
In this activity guide, you will learn how to create and test a Network load balancer.
Check our blog on AWS Elastic Load Balancing.
Activity Guide 8: Configuring Load Balancer and Autoscaling on EC2 Instances
Auto Scaling monitors your applications and adjusts capacity automatically to maintain consistent, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Setting up application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes is simple with AWS Auto Scaling.
Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming application traffic automatically across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle varying application traffic loads in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones.
In this activity guide, We will go over step-by-step instructions for creating an Elastic Load Balancer ELB & Auto Scaling group to create a system that can handle traffic variations.
Activity Guide 9: Create a Custom Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an AWS service that allows you to configure a logically separate section of the AWS cloud where you can launch your AWS resources in a virtual network of your choosing. You have complete control over your VPC environment, including the ability to choose your own IP address range, create your own subnets, and configure route tables and network gateways.
In this activity guide, you will learn about how to create a VPC, subnet, Internet gateway, and NAT gateway and what is the purpose of creating these resources.
Activity Guide 10: Create and Update Stacks Using CloudFormation
In this activity guide, you will learn how to create and update the CloudFormation stacks.
Activity Guide 11: Migrating an on-premises VM machine to the AWS environment
The primary migration service recommended for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS is AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN). Customers who are currently using Server Migration Service (SMS) are encouraged to migrate to Application Migration Service in the future.
The Application Migration Service simplifies and expedites your cloud migration. It enables you to quickly realize the benefits of migrating applications to the cloud with minimal changes and downtime.
In this activity guide, you will learn how to Migrate an on-premises VM machine to the AWS environment
Activity Guide 12: Migrating a source DB, which will be from outside the AWS environment to target AWS RDS Aurora DB in the side AWS environment
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a cloud service that simplifies the migration of relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and other data stores. You can use AWS DMS to migrate your data into the AWS Cloud or between cloud and on-premises configurations.
You can use AWS DMS to perform one-time migrations as well as replicate ongoing changes to keep sources and targets in sync.
In this activity guide, you will learn how to Migrate a source DB (outside AWS Environment) to AWS RDS Aurora DB.
Activity Guide 13: Speeding up a large-scale data migration to S3 by enabling S3 Acceleration
For long-distance transfers of larger objects, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration can accelerate content transfers to and from Amazon S3 by up to 50-500%. Customers with widely used web or mobile applications, or applications hosted far from their S3 bucket, may experience long and variable upload and download speeds over the Internet.
In this activity guide, you will learn how to enable S3 Acceleration.
Activity Guide 14: Confirming how much data migration has been speeded up via a tool
To compare accelerated and non-accelerated upload speeds across Amazon S3 Regions, use the Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison tool. The Speed Comparison tool transfers a file from your browser to various Amazon S3 Regions with and without Transfer Acceleration.
In this activity guide, you will learn how much your data is speeded up via an Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison tool.
Activity Guide 15: Migrating a monolithic application to AWS and then breaking it into microservices
A migration to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud has numerous benefits, including increased technical and business agility, new revenue opportunities, and cost savings. To fully reap these benefits, you must constantly modernize your organization’s software by refactoring monolithic applications into microservices.
In this activity guide, you will learn how to migrate a monolithic application to AWS and then break it into microservices.
Related Links/References:
- 5 Steps for a Cost-efficient Migration to AWS Cloud
- Top 10 Must-Have AWS Cloud Migration Tools in 2023
- AWS Database Migration Service: Everything You Need To Know
- Application Migration to AWS & Its 6 Phases
- AWS Server Migration Service
- AWS Database Migration Service
- AWS Training and Certification
- Top 100+ AWS Interview Questions for 2023
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