AWS Solutions Training for Partners

Advanced Migrating to AWS –

Technical
Module 1

Introduction
 In this course, you will learn how to:

Course objectives • Identify how re-host and re-platform migration

strategies apply to customer migration use cases
• Describe how to plan and perform large-scale
rehosting migrations
• Identify scenarios for modernizing enterprises
through migrating to reliable, secure, cloud
infrastructures
• Identify scenarios for migrating applications to run in
container environments
• Use CloudEndure Migration Factory (CEMF) to
automate large-scale migrations that involve
rehosting
• Use AWS App2Container (A2C) to migrate
applications to container-based platforms

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Course overview

1. Introduction
Lab: Setup

2. Modernize the enterprise

3. Implement AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory
Lab: CloudEndure Migration Factory

4. Containerize applications with AWS App2Container

Lab: App2Container

5. Course review and additional resources

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Objectives

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Identify course goals and objectives, agenda, and prerequisites

• Describe re-host and re-platform migration methodologies
• Identify migration opportunities to help customers realize a lower total cost of
ownership (TCO) and overcome the migration bubble
• Navigate the hands-on labs environment

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 Prerequisites

AWS Solutions Training

AWS Technical for Partners (STP):
Accreditations

Professional Foundations (Technical)

Assess AWS Well-Architected
Framework, TCO, business

Previous knowledge
AWS STP:
AWS Cloud Economics case
Well-Architected Best
Practices (Technical) Mobilize Application discovery,

Courses
Landing Zone,
database migration
AWS STP: Migrate and
AWS Certified CloudEndure Migration
Migrating to AWS Modernize
Solutions Architect
Certifications

(Technical)
Associate
or
AWS Certified AWS STP:
SysOps Administrator Containers on AWS
Associate (Technical)

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Common migration strategies

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Migration strategies review (match)

A. Lift and shift

1 REHOST
2 minutes
2 REPLATFORM

3 REPURCHASE
Type in chat
B. Rewrite
application
4 REFACTOR

5 RETIRE

C. Lift, tinker,
and shift
6 RETAIN

7 RELOCATE
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 Migration strategies
4 Manual Install Config Deploy
Rehost
1 Automated Migration
tools

Determine Modify
Replatform
Discover platform infrastructure

Validation

Transition
2 3
Assess/ App code Production
Refactor Redesign ALM/SDLC Integration
Prioritize development
Determine
Buy
Repurchase Install/setup
COTS/SaaS

5 Relocate Automated

Retain
• COTS: Commercial “off-the-shelf” software
Retire • SaaS: Software as a service
• ALM: Application lifecycle management
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 Help customers realize cost savings

Payback period
Cost

Migration bubble
Current /
TCO Do nothing
(with growth)
Cost optimizing /
modernizing

AWS
environment
Time

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Activity: Experience and feedback

Classroom feedback:

• What is your experience with AWS? 2 minutes

• What are your goals for the course?
• What type of migration situations do you face?

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Lab 1: Setup

1. Access AWS accounts.

20 minutes
2. Navigate and use the lab environment.
3. Open the lab instructions by following this link:

Hands-on lab

https://advancemigrationtraining.s3.amazonaws.com/public/index.html

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Summary

In this module, you learned how to:

• Identify course goals and objectives, agenda, and prerequisites

• Describe re-host and re-platform migration methodologies
• Identify migration opportunities to help customers realize a lower total cost of
ownership (TCO) and overcome the migration bubble
• Navigate the hands-on labs environment

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Module 2

Modernize the Enterprise

Objectives

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Define enterprise modernization and its benefits

• Describe modernization as a continuous cycle
• Identify options for modernizing applications
• Modernize enterprise systems with rehosting
• Modernize applications with containers
• Identify applications for containers
• Describe how to host and run container-based applications
• Explain how to prepare for a migration

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Enterprise modernization benefits

What is enterprise modernization?

• Maximizes resiliency, engineering
efficiency, and business agility – with
Architecture operational excellence
• Combines modern infrastructure,
Enterprise architecture, and organizational patterns
modernization • Replatform or refactor

Organizational
Benefits
patterns • Increases uptime, streamlines fixes
Infrastructure • Improves customer experience
• Reduces effort to support
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Innovation flywheel
Feedback
Gain availability, scalability,
business agility, cost optimization

• Track metrics to collect and analyze

feedback
Innovation • Fine-tune applications – always
flywheel evolve
Experiment Ideas • Go to market with new offerings
• Fund experimentation and new ideas

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Options

Migration
automation
tools

Rehost

Replatform Infrastructure

Refactor Integration

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Sample solution
AWS Cloud

Amazon
EC2
Users Amazon Elastic Load Amazon
CloudFront Balancing RDS

Amazon
EC2

Rehost Replatform
• Rehost to resilient, secure networks
• Replatform critical components
• Minimize changes
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Modernize with containers

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Why containers

Implement leading technology for cloud-native applications – use the

same technology for existing applications

Deliver applications efficiently

Keep applications agile and portable

Provide standardized packaging

Reduce risks – defined and managed as code

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Container benefits

Develop and deploy efficiently to

Agility achieve business goals

Build and operate with cloud-

Enterprise DevOps native tools

Enable portable, scalable, and isolated

Portability and isolation application deployment

Reduce IT overhead, optimize

Operational efficiency
compute infrastructures

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Containerized example
AWS Cloud

Users Amazon Elastic Load Amazon Amazon

CloudFront Balancing Elastic RDS
Container
Service

Replatform/
Replatform
Refactor

• Migrate to resilient, secure networks

• Refactor and containerize to gain agility and cost savings
• Replatform critical components, such as databases
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Containerization complexity
Time/effort
to migrate
Attributes of application to migrate

Package or source install, single process, single file or folder,

static files secrets, HTTP/S, web interface, open-source license

Unattended install, multiple processes, several files, folders,

network secrets, TCP/UDP, services, background processing,
scheduled jobs, agent-daemon, proprietary source license

Interactive install, self-modifying processes, data

everywhere, dynamic secrets, IPsec (isolated), desktop client,
restrictive license
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Get started

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Premigration tasks

Ensure that a landing Complete an initial

zone is ready, including portfolio assessment
networking, server
authentication, and
logging

Group servers and Grant permissions to AWS

applications into Professional Services or an
migration waves AWS Partner to run the
migration

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Review

Question 1 Question 4

Question 2

Question 3 Proceed to Summary

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Question 1

What are key elements of enterprise modernization?

1 minute
A. Allow enhanced security, reliable networks, and operational
efficiency
B. Combine modern infrastructure, architecture, and
organizational patterns Type in chat

C. Perform well-architected migrations to positively impact

performance of the business process
D. Use cookie-cutter approaches that leverage fast-paced
innovation to deliver agile IT processes

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Question 1 answer

What are key elements of enterprise modernization?

A. Allow enhanced security, reliable networks, and operational

efficiency
B. Combine modern infrastructure, architecture, and
organizational patterns (Correct)
C. Perform well-architected migrations to positively impact
performance of the business process
D. Use cookie-cutter approaches that use fast-paced
innovation to deliver agile IT processes

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Question 2

What are some benefits to modernizing applications?

1 minute

Type in chat

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Question 2 answer

What are some benefits to modernizing applications?

• More uptime
• Streamlined fixes
• Improved response times
• Improved end-user experience
• Reduced headcount to support
• Less reliance on systems that are expensive to run, hard to maintain, and
difficult to find employees to support

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Question 3

Which step in the innovation flywheel helps

businesses resolve issues before they impact the
business? 1 minute

Type in chat

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Question 3 answer

Which step in the innovation flywheel helps

businesses resolve issues before they impact the
business?

Track metrics to collect and monitor log files and

analyze feedback.
The more efficiently businesses collect and analyze
feedback, the more responsive they can be to their
customers’ needs.

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Question 4

What are the attributes of applications that are

easier to migrate to containers?
1 minute
• Installation methods
• Application modes
• Storage Type in chat
• Security, authentication, connectivity
• Networking
• User interface
• Source license

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Question 4 answer

What are some attributes of applications that are

easier to migrate to containers?
• Installation methods: Package or source installer
• Application modes: Single process
• Storage: Single file, single folder
• Security, authentication, connectivity: Static file secrets
• Networking: HTTP or HTTPS
• User interface: Web interface
• Source license: Open-source licensing

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Summary

In this module, you learned how to:

• Define enterprise modernization and its benefits
• Describe modernization as a continuous cycle
• Identify options for modernizing applications
• Modernize enterprise systems with rehosting
• Modernize applications with containers
• Identify applications for containers
• Describe how to host and run container-based applications
• Explain how to prepare for a migration

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Module 3

Implement AWS CloudEndure

Migration Factory
Objectives

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Describe the benefits of using automation to perform large-scale migrations
• Identify the tasks required to plan, test, perform, and switch to a large-scale
migration
• Describe a framework for large-scale migrations
• Describe the CloudEndure Migration Factory workflow
• Identify the steps to prepare, perform, and monitor an CloudEndure Migration
Factory migration

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Migration tasks

Typical tasks
• Verify prerequisites
• Install CloudEndure agents
• Verify replication status
• Launch servers for boot test
• Schedule application cutover time frame

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Migration at scale

Migrate thousands of servers

efficiently

Challenges:
• Multiple tools are not integrated
• Slow, cumbersome manual processes
can be error prone

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Migration activities

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Migration phases

Build Validate Test Cutover

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Build phase
1 2 3

Install Push post-

Check source CloudEndure
prerequisites launch script to
agent on each source
source

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Validate phase
1 2 3

Create local Perform

Monitor administrator CloudEndure
replication (optional) dry run

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Test phase
1 2 3

Perform
Test launch instance 2/2 Terminate
check test instances

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Cutover phase
1 2 3

Shut down Launch Verify

server cutover applications

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Automate migrations with a
factory

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Automation benefits

• High efficiency
• Less prone to error
• Large-scale migrations
with less effort
• Reduced cost

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Automation example – 1

Automate CloudEndure agent installations

• One server: 5 minutes
• 100 servers, different platforms, manually: 500 minutes
• 100 servers, automated: 5 minutes

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Automation example – 2

Orchestrate CloudEndure cutover

• Process involves checking status, updating

blueprints, launching servers, verifying job status,
and cleaning up server
• Automation manages the entire cutover process

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Automation example – 3

Customer example: Migrated hundreds of

servers in one day
• 418 servers in 1 day
• One week later, 626 servers in one day

Tips
• Minimize network changes
• Automate as much as
possible
• Prepare application owners
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CloudEndure Migration Factory (CEMF)

AWS solution powered

by CloudEndure

• Rehosting
• Integrates with AWS Managed Services
• Solves integration, automation, and
orchestration problems
• Offers simplicity, speed, and cost reduction

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Migration metadata pipeline
Pre-migration Discover Build Validate Test Cutover
Configuration
CSV file Management
Database Automation
API API API

Migration metadata integration pipeline

API-driven pipeline: Frontend UI + backend database

API API API

CloudEndure AWS Managed

Migration Services

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Migration Factory workflow

Cutover Build
Pre- Wave Post-
migration 0-n migration
Test Validate

Migration implementation

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Premigration requirements

1. Complete AWS landing zone design

and build.
2. Complete portfolio assessment.
3. Complete wave planning.
4. Deploy migration factory to your
AWS account.
5. Increase Amazon EC2 limits in your
AWS account.
6. Have a CloudEndure account.
7. Prepare source environments.
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Deploy CloudEndure Migration Factory

Access a Launch AWS Create the first Build a Test solution

domain CloudFormation user in migration migration server by using
user with stack with an factory and automation
local admin automation update schema scripts
permissions template

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Prepare the source environment

• Create (or enable) a user capable of connecting to the servers

• Open the following firewall ports:
• TCP 443 outbound from the source server to the CloudEndure console
• TCP 1500 outbound from the source server to the CloudEndure replication
server
• Verify that Windows servers run .NET Framework 3.5 or later
• Verify that Windows servers have a least 3 GB of free space on drive C
• Configure the migration server’s network settings

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 Migration waves
Migration implementation plan
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Build Validate
Wave 1
Test Cutover

Build Validate
Wave 2
Test Cutover

Build Validate
Wave 3
Test Cutover

Build Validate
Wave 4
Test Cutover
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Migration implementation
Build Validate Test Cutover
Check prerequisites CloudEndure dry run Test launch App verification
Source Automated CE Automated CE Automated Source Automated

CE agent install Create local admin Instance 2/2 check Cutover launch
Source Automated Source Automated AWS Automated CE Automated

Push post-launch script Monitor replication Terminate test Server shutdown

Source Automated CE Automated AWS Automated Source Automated

CloudEndure Migration Factory (CEMF) - Automation

API-driven pipeline: Frontend UI + backend database

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 Migration wave automation
1. Check prerequisites. Corporate AWS Cloud
Build

2. Install CloudEndure agents. data centers

3. Push post-launch scripts. Migration wave 1

4. Monitor data replication.

Validate

5. Create local admin account. CEMF Amazon

application DynamoDB
6. CloudEndure cutover dry run. and APIs

7. Test launch. Migration wave 2

Migration
Test

8. EC2 instance 2/2 status check. server

9. Shut down test instance.

10. Shut down source machine.

Cutover

11. Cutover launch.

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 Example: Install CloudEndure agents
1. Check prerequisites. Corporate AWS Cloud
Build

2. Install CloudEndure agents. data centers

3. Push post launch scripts. Migration wave 1

4. Monitor data replication.

Validate

5. Create local admin account. CEMF Amazon

application DynamoDB
6. CloudEndure cutover dry run. and APIs

7. Test launch. Migration wave 2

Migration
Test

8. EC2 instance 2/2 status check. server

9. Shut down test instance.

10. Shut down source machine.

Cutover

11. Cutover launch.

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 Example: Monitor data replication
1. Check prerequisites. Corporate AWS Cloud
Build

2. Install CloudEndure agents. data centers

3. Push post launch scripts. Migration wave 1

4. Monitor data replication.

Validate

5. Create local admin account. CEMF Amazon

application DynamoDB
6. CloudEndure cutover dry run. and APIs

7. Test launch. Migration wave 2

Migration
Test

8. EC2 instance 2/2 status check. server

9. Shut down test instance.

10. Shut down source machine. Your

Cutover

automation
11. Cutover launch. scripts

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Post-migration activities

Activities depend on specific scenarios

and requirements

Example tasks:
• Update servers in the source configuration
management database (CMDB)
• Decommission source machines
• Optimize Amazon EC2 instance
performance

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Customers use Migration Factory

Energy • Intended to migrate 1,000 servers in a year, but

they only completed 25 servers. They deployed
company CloudEndure Migration Factory and migrated
1,200 servers in 5 months.

Hospitality • Used CloudEndure Migration Factory to rehost

1,400 servers to AWS. Successfully migrated 626
company servers in a single cutover.

• Migrated 621 servers within 4 months with an

IT company increasing velocity due to the automation: 100
servers in July, 140 servers in August, 160 servers
in September, and 211 servers in October.
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Migration Factory solution architecture
Solution deployment

Amazon Elastic Container Service

(front-end code)

Amazon Amazon S3
CloudFront
AWS Lambda Amazon Cognito
Migration (login functions)
server
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon API Admin functions
Gateway
AWS Managed Services
User functions

Tool functions CloudEndure Migration

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Lab architecture
Corporate data center AWS Cloud

Public subnet
VPC
User CloudEndure
CloudEndure
Bastion replication subnet

Private subnet

Private subnet
Application Database
server server
Migrate here

Application Database
server server

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Lab 2: CloudEndure Migration Factory

In this lab, you will:

1. Connect to the bastion host desktop. 120 minutes

2. Configure CloudEndure.
3. Create a user and log in to the migration factory.
4. Configure a CEMF endpoint. Hands-on lab
5. Configure migration factory.
6. Automate migration tasks.

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Best practices

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Best practices

Save time and avoid pitfalls

• Plan migration waves

• Develop the end-to-end process
• Minimize unnecessary change
• Automate as much as possible
• Prepare application teams

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Review

Question 1 Question 4

Question 2

Question 3 Proceed to Summary

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Question 1

Which application migration strategy is the focus of

CloudEndure Migration Factory?
1 minute

A. Repurchasing
B. Retain
C. Refactoring Type in chat

D. Rehosting

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Question 1 answer

Which application migration strategy is the focus of

CloudEndure Migration Factory?

A. Repurchasing
B. Retain
C. Refactoring
D. Rehosting (correct)

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Question 2

What are the benefits of CloudEndure Migration

Factory discussed in this module?
1 minute
A. Simplicity, speed, cost reduction
B. Speed, high availability, security
C. Ease of use, speed of implementation Type in chat
D. Support available, cost reduction, security

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Question 2 answer

What are the benefits of CloudEndure Migration

Factory discussed in this module?

A. Simplicity, speed, cost reduction (correct)

B. Speed, high availability, security
C. Ease of use, speed of implementation
D. Support available, cost reduction, security

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Question 3

Where must customers build the migration server?

(Select TWO.)
1 minute
A. On premises
B. In an AWS account
C. On all admin desktops Type in chat
D. Local networks
E. Virtual private networks

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Question 3 answer

Where must customers build the migration server?

(Select TWO.)
A. On premises (correct)
B. In an AWS account (correct)
C. On all admin desktops
D. Local networks
E. Virtual private networks

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Question 4

Which of the following is a build migration

automation step?
1 minute
A. Monitor replication, create local admin, CloudEndure
dry run
B. Check source prerequisites, create local admin,
CloudEndure agent install at source Type in chat

C. Check source prerequisites, CloudEndure agent install

at source, push postlaunch script at source
D. Check source prerequisites, CloudEndure agent install
at source, CloudEndure dry run

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Question 4 answer

Which of the following is a build migration

automation step?
A. Monitor replication, create local admin, CloudEndure
dry run
B. Check source prerequisites, create local admin,
CloudEndure agent install at source
C. Check source prerequisites, CloudEndure agent install
at source, push postlaunch script at source (correct)
D. Check source prerequisites, CloudEndure agent install
at source, CloudEndure dry run

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Summary

In this module, you learned how to:

• Describe the benefits of using automation to perform large-scale migrations
• Identify the tasks required to plan, test, perform, and switch to a large-scale
migration
• Describe a framework for large-scale migrations
• Describe the CloudEndure Migration Factory workflow
• Identify the steps to prepare, perform, and monitor an CloudEndure Migration
Factory migration

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Module 4

Containerize applications with

AWS App2Container
Objectives

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Describe the benefits of replatforming applications to run in containers

• Identify considerations for migrating applications to containers
• Evaluate containerizing applications based on an application’s requirements
• Identify the tasks to switch to containers
• Describe AWS App2Container and its benefits
• Describe the AWS App2Container workflow
• Identify the steps in the containerization process

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Container architecture comparison

On-premises servers Virtual machines (VMs) Containers

Container Container Container

App A App B App C
VM VM VM
App A App B App C Libraries Libs

Applications A, B, C Libs Libs Libs Libraries

Guest Guest Guest
Libraries OS OS OS Containerization platform

Operating system Virtualization platform Operating system

Server hardware Server hardware Server hardware

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Containerizing benefits

Agility Portability Operational

efficiency

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Containerizing challenges

Technology Staff Process

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Application discovery

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 • Software applications that fit
Common design containerized solutions are
patterns designed to be:
• Portable between environments
• Deployed on modern cloud
platforms
• Run in maximum agility
deployments
• Scaled up without significant
changes in architecture

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Before you containerize

Dependencies Compactness

Configuration Data storage

Logging External access

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Determine containerization complexity

Installation

License

Programming language

more
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Containerization complexity factors

Application binary

Sessions

User interface (UI)

Network

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AWS App2Container (A2C)

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AWS App2Container
Modernize applications into containers

Create Deploy
Discover Extract and
deployment in the
and analyze containerize
artifacts AWS Cloud

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A2C benefits

Accelerates
Streamlines Scales and
application
operations secures applications
modernization

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Supported runtimes and middleware

Java ASP.NET
Frameworks Distributions Frameworks and system
requirements
• Tomcat • Ubuntu
• Windows Server Core 2016 or
• Spring Boot • CentOS 2019 (earlier OS do not
• JBoss* • RHEL support containers)
• WebLogic* • Amazon Linux • IIS 7.5 or later
• WebSphere* • .NET framework version 3.5
later
*In standalone mode

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A2C limitations

Java application frameworks ASP.NET

• ASP.NET applications that

Cluster/HA mode depend on Windows
Communication
Foundation
• Non-IIS applications
• Pre-Windows Server Core
2016 applications

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Containerize existing applications
Deployment source Application server AWS Cloud
(VM or EC2 instance)
Running
application Deployment target
Virtual
machine 4
.NET

On-premises IIS server App2Container Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic
server Container Container Container Registry
1 Service Kubernetes

Amazon EC2
instance Java Lifecycle management
2 3 5
Other cloud Springboot
environments Tomcat Artifacts
Jboss AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeBuild AWS CodeDeploy
WebSphere
WebLogic
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Java (Linux) prerequisites

AWS Command Docker engine is One or more Customer has Server has
Line Interface installed Java applications root access GNU Tar
(AWS CLI) is are running installed and
installed 20 GB of free
space

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.NET (Windows) prerequisites

AWS Tools for Docker engine is One or more IIS Customer is a Server has
PowerShell are installed application is Windows PowerShell v5.1
installed running administrator or later and
20–30 GB of
free space

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Get started with A2C

1. Sign up for AWS 2. Grant 3. Decide where

permissions to containerization
IAM users will run

4. Configure the 5. Install the

AWS profile Docker engine

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A2C tools
Application server AWS Cloud
• Command line (VM or EC2 instance)

interface run on an Running application Artifacts

application server
Java .NET
Amazon S3
• End-to-end workflow Docker image
on the application
server Amazon Elastic
Container Registry
• Same commands and App2Container

command options for

Task definition
Windows and Linux Artifacts Container
Amazon Elastic
Container
Service

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Containerization steps

1. Install 2. Initialize 3. Analyze 4. Modify

App2Container App2Container application application

5. Transform 6. Deploy 7. Clean up

application application

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Customers use App2Container

• A public sector customer with minimal container

Public sector expertise containerized two ASP.NET and deployed
to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).

Financial • A financial services customer containerized one

services .NET and one Java application and deployed to
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).
Manufacturing • Two Fortune 500 customers (in manufacturing and
banking banking sectors) containerized Java applications.

• A European retailer containerized five ASP.NET

Retail applications in a few hours.

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Lab 3: App2Container

In this lab, you will:

1. Install AWS CLI. 60 minutes

2. Create a Docker base image.
3. Install App2Container.
4. Initialize App2Container. Hands-on lab
5. Analyze your application.
6. Transform your application.
7. Set up deployment artifacts.

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Review

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Review

Question 1 Question 3

Question 2 Proceed to Summary

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Question 1

Put the App2Container workflow phases in the

correct order.
1 minute
A. Create deployment artifacts
B. Discover and analyze
C. Deploy in AWS Cloud Type in chat
D. Extract and containerize

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Question 1 answer

Put the App2Container workflow phases in the

correct order.

A. Create deployment artifacts – 3

B. Discover and analyze – 1
C. Deploy in AWS Cloud – 4
D. Extract and containerize – 2

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Question 2

Which of the following are benefits of containerization?

A. Accuracy, rigidity, portability 1 minute

B. Agility, portability, operational efficiency

C. Stability, scalability, strategic value
D. Accessibility, agility, risk aversion Type in chat

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Question 2 answer

Which of the following are benefits of containerization?

A. Accuracy, rigidity, portability

B. Agility, portability, operational efficiency (correct)
C. Stability, scalability, strategic value
D. Accessibility, agility, risk aversion

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Question 3

What is a benefit of using App2Container?

A. Disrupts operations 1 minute

B. Creates new practices to scale and secure applications

C. Accelerates application modernization
D. Complicates deployments Type in chat

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Question 3 answer

What is a benefit of using App2Container?

A. Disrupts operations
B. Creates new practices to scale and secure applications
C. Accelerates application modernization (correct)
D. Complicates deployments

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Summary

In this module, you learned how to:

• Describe the benefits of replatforming applications to run in containers

• Identify considerations for migrating applications to containers
• Evaluate containerizing applications based on an application’s requirements
• Identify the tasks to switch to containers
• Describe AWS App2Container and its benefits
• Describe the AWS App2Container workflow
• Identify the steps in the containerization process

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Module 5

Course Review and Additional

Resources
Objectives

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Recap migration strategies to rehost enterprise fleets and containerize

applications
• Identify additional AWS Partner programs and resources to assist with large-scale
customer migrations
• Identify next steps to engage in large-scale migrations, and find AWS support
when needed

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Learner path and accreditation
https://aws.amazon.com/partners/training/path-tech-pro/

AWS STP:
Migrating to AWS
(Technical)

AWS STP:
Containers on AWS
(Technical)

AWS STP:
Advanced Migration
(Technical)

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 Migration and container training

AWS Solutions Training for AWS Solutions Training for

Partners: Migrating to AWS – Partners: Migrating to AWS –
Technical (ILT) Technical (Digital)
https://partnercentral.awspartner. https://partnercentral.awspartner.co
com/LmsSsoRedirect?RelayState= m/LmsSsoRedirect?RelayState=/lea
/learningobject/curriculum?id=49 rningobject/wbc?id=51827
730

AWS Solutions Training for AWS Solutions Training for

Partners: Containers on AWS – Partners: Containers on AWS –
Technical (ILT) Technical (Digital)
https://partnercentral.awspartner. https://partnercentral.awspartner
com/LmsSsoRedirect?RelayState= .com/LmsSsoRedirect?RelayState
/learningobject/curriculum?id=38 =/learningobject/wbc?id=42827
777

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Documentation

AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory

Solution
• Implementation guide
• Source code
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/aws-cloudendure-
migration-factory-solution/welcome.html

AWS App2Container (A2C)

• User Guide
• Troubleshooting guide
• Command reference
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/app2container/latest/User
Guide/start-intro.html

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Migration resources

Migrate with AWS

• Migration experience
• Comprehensive and mature migration solutions
• Faster time to business results
https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-migration/

AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)

• Migration methodology
• Support, training, and services
• Migration competency acceleration Partners
https://aws.amazon.com/migration-acceleration-program/

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AWS Migration resources

Download this migration

guide to help build your
skills and knowledge
https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/ramp-
up_guides/Ramp-Up_Guide_Migration.pdf

Learn how to migrate your on-premises

applications and workloads to the AWS
Cloud
https://www.edx.org/course/migrating-to-the-aws-cloud

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 Tech for Tech for
discovery workload
and mobility
planning Total cost Tech for
Delivery of data
ownership migration
Tech for
Consulting application
profiling

AWS Migration Competency Partners

Helping customers move applications to the AWS Cloud
https://aws.amazon.com/migration/partner-solutions/

• Validated Partners with demonstrated expertise

• APN Consulting Partners offer consulting services for migrations
• APN Technology Partners have deep expertise with migrations to AWS

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AWS App2Container resources

Demonstration of AWS App2Container (A2C) as a

command line tool for modernizing .NET and Java
applications into containerized applications
https://youtu.be/Wodiyv4HBFE

The Twelve-Factor App methodology for building apps

that are portable, scalable, and deployment friendly
https://12factor.net

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AWS Partner resources

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AWS Partner Network
APN Technical Baseline Review (TBR)
• Available to all AWS Partners across all tiers
• Provides one-on-one engagement with AWS Partner solutions architects
• Reviews product offerings and helps Partners optimize and refine processes to
improve quality and deliver successful customer outcomes

APN Navigate
• Provides prescriptive guidance from AWS experts
• Step-by-step instruction to build, market, and sell as an AWS Partner
• Equips Partners with a roadmap, enablement tools, and resources

AWS PartnerCast
Helps Partners:
• Create new client opportunities
• Enhance professional relationships
• Develop their AWS Cloud skills

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Review

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Match resources and descriptions

Combines migration methodology with

1. APN Partner
Partners who achieve migration
Resources competency

Programs to help APN Partners build,

2. AWS Migration market, and sell their AWS based
Competency Partners offerings

3. AWS Migration Validated Partners who help customers

Acceleration Program move to the AWS Cloud

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Summary

In this module, you learned how to:

• Recap migration strategies to rehost enterprise fleets and containerize

applications
• Identify additional AWS Partner programs and resources to assist with large-scale
customer migrations
• Identify next steps to engage in large-scale migrations, and find AWS support
when needed

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 In this course, you learned how to:

Course review • Identify how re-host and re-platform migration

strategies apply to customer migration use cases
• Describe how to plan and perform large-scale
rehosting migrations
• Identify scenarios for modernizing enterprises
through migrating to reliable, secure, cloud
infrastructures
• Identify scenarios for migrating applications to run
in container environments
• Use CloudEndure Migration Factory (CEMF) to
automate large-scale migrations that involve
rehosting
• Use AWS App2Container (A2C) to migrate
applications to container-based platforms

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 • Engage with your AWS Partner
managers to accelerate your ramp
up to AWS

Call to action • Improve your skills with additional

training

• Learn about the available AWS

Partner programs that support you

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Take the assessment!
End of course assessment
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bc%3fid%3d61579

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 Additional resources

AWS Prescriptive Guidance AWS Migration Competency

Consulting Partner Validation
Checklist
https://aws.amazon.com/prescriptiv
https://apn-
e-guidance/?apg-all-cards.sort-
checklists.s3.amazonaws.com/comp
by=item.additionalFields.sortText&a
etency/migration/consulting/CNIBv
pg-all-cards.sort-order=desc
7Tt8.html

AWS Competency Program AWS Partner Opportunity

Accelerating Funding

https://aws.amazon.com/partners
https://partnercentral.awspartner.co
/competencies/
m/apex/AccelHome

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 Additional resources

AWS Partner Training and

Certification
AWS Accelerate

https://aws.amazon.com/partners https://accelerate.amazonaws.com/
/training

AWS Managed Services AWS Migration Evaluator

Description (Formerly TSO Logic); Build a
business case for AWS.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/am
s.contract.docs/AWS+Managed https://www.youtube.com/watch
+Services+Service+Description. ?v=xkKMtEwPicg&feature=youtu.
pdf be

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Application containerization
level of complexity
Application component Easy Moderate Difficult
Binary Single process Multiple process Self-modifying
Language Modern programming x86 precompiled binaries None-x86
Configuration In a single file In several files Located everywhere
Data In a single folder In multiple folders and partitions Located everywhere
Access credentials Saved in static files Saved in a file and saved on a Saved as a dynamic
network location certificate
Sessions Stateless Stateful Cluster dependent
User Interface Web, backend Services, background process, Desktop client
processing scheduled jobs, agents, daemons
Network HTTP, HTTPS TCP, UDP IPsec, highly isolated
Installation Packages, source Unattended installer Interactive installer
Licensing In-house, open source Proprietary, no source Restrictive

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Thank you

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