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| AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) |
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| Service that supports homogeneous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migration between different database platforms such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora. Unique feature of this service is its ability to continuously replicate data from the source to the target during the migration process. |
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| Which migration service is used to consolidate multiple databases into one database? |
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| Database Migration Service (DMS) |
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| Migration service used to securely transfer terabytes (large amounts) of data to S3, EFS, or FSx (storage and file systems). Data can originate in another cloud provider, in AWS or on-prem. |
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| The 7 Migration Strategies |
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| Retire(simplest) < Retain < Relocate < Rehost < Repurchase < Replatform < Re-architect/Refactor (most complex) |
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| lift and shift. move apps to aws without changes. in large-scale, legacy migrations, organization are looking to move quickly to meet business objectives. |
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lift, tinker and shift. making a few cloud optimizations in order to achieve some tangible benefit without changing core architecture of your application
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for relational databases – AWS manages the database application for you, so you can focus on the application of the database itself
AWS Elastic Beanstalk – a fully managed platform where you can simply deploy your code, and AWS will handle scaling, load balancing, monitoring, database and compute provisioning for you |
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| drop and shop. move from perpetual licenses to a SaaS model. essentially, when you move to the cloud, you will drop the former way of supporting workloads to a more cloud-native way of supporting them. For example, you will discontinue using your local VPN solution and instead purchase a commercial VPN software from AWS Marketplace such as OpenVPN for AWS. |
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Re-imagine how the application is architected and developed using cloud-native features.
Typically, this is driven by a strong business need to add features, scale, or performance that would otherwise be difficult to achieve in the application’s existing environment.
This migration strategy is often the most expensive solution. |
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| this migration strategy is the act of relocating your proprietary virtualization platform from your on-premises network to the cloud. |
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| Retain (migration strategy) |
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| Retain portions of your IT portfolio if there are some applications that are not ready to be migrated and will produce more benefits when kept on-premises, or you are not ready to prioritize an application that was recently upgraded and then make changes to it again. |
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| Identify IT assets that are no longer useful and can be turned off. This will help boost your business case and direct your attention towards maintaining the resources that are widely used. |
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| Order from level of effort and expense for the 7 migration strategies |
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1. Retire (least LOE and $)
2. Retain
3. Relocate
4. Rehost
5. Repurchase
6. Re-platform
7. Refactor or re-architect (most LOE and $) |
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| AWS Server Migration Service |
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| An agentless service for migrating thousands of on-prem workloads to AWS. This is the enhanced replacement of Amazon EC2 VM Import Service. |
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| A storage device from AWS that has on-board compute power for select AWS capabilities. It does more than jsut store - it can undertake local processing and edge-computing workloads in addition to transferring data between your local environment and the AWS cloud. |
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| An exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile. |
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| provides a single location to track the progress of application migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions. Using Migration Hub allows you to choose the AWS and partner migration tools that best fit your needs, while providing visibility into the status of migrations across your portfolio of applications. |
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| AWS Application Discovery Service |
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| collects and presents configuration, usage, and behavior data from your servers to help you plan your migration |
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| AWS Application Migration Service |
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| an agentless service for migrating thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS; in other words, an automated lift and shift service that migrates many apps to AWS without modifying them. |
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| lets you establish a dedicated network connection line between your network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations. It is ideal for migrations. Think of it like a private road for you to go back and forth from you data center to the cloud. |
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| Why is Direct Connect a good migration service? |
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- it is a private connection between your data center and the AWS cloud
- it is ideal for transferring large volumes of data quickly
- it is free from public internet disruptions
- reduces bandwidth costs bc amount of data transferred via internet is reduced
- enhanced security for data bc it is not on the public internet to do the data transfer/migration to AWS |
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| a fully managed service for loading streaming data into AWS |
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