What will you learn from this course?

Cloud Migration for AWS

Application Migration Strategies: The 6 R's (in brief)

Moving a Virtual Machine from the Local Cloud to the AWS Cloud

Import and Export for AWS VM

This course will teach you how to assess whether or not a company should adopt cloud computing

What is AWS cloud migration?

Moving data, programs, or other business components to a cloud computing environment is known as cloud migration. Some clouds are private, made up of protected cloud infrastructure that is only accessible to a single business, while others are public clouds, where services are supplied over a public network. Public and private clouds are frequently used by businesses in a hybrid cloud architecture that also includes on-premise computer resources.

To remain nimble, adaptable, and competitive, businesses must migrate to the cloud, but they must do so without running the risk of performance, security, or business disruption. One or more clouds may be involved in migration.

These days, everyone makes use of cloud services. You have probably dealt with the cloud if you have utilized SharePoint, Zoom, Office 365, Google Drive, or Gmail. Moving crucial services from on-premise and colocated hardware to Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or other cloud providers is part of the cloud migration process. With the help of these services, you can manage your IT infrastructure totally remotely, free from the hassle, expense, and security risks associated with maintaining on-site hardware.

What are the benefits of AWS Cloud migration?

Scalability

By moving to the cloud, your organization will be better able to scale up or down in accordance with your IT needs and strategic plans. It can be challenging for businesses to adjust to changing client needs when an IT solution that was perfect for one year may be outdated for another after a few years. Without being bound by the hardware and assets that made sense in the past, enterprises may use cloud migration to drastically rearrange their infrastructure and workloads to meet today's needs. You have the ability to manage your resources based on your unique demands as an individual and as a corporation thanks to the cloud. With other systems that tie you to contracts, minimum terms, and predetermined strategies, this is just not possible.

Flexibility and Adaptability

Around the cloud, there are several distinct meanings for the word agility. The capacity to design, test, and deliver commercial apps fast is frequently referred to as "cloud agility." Cloud, however, also provides you with the adaptability to act swiftly as needs alter.

The same potent technologies used by the largest corporations are available to even modest firms. With just a few mouse clicks, new services may be accessible, making it easy to act right away when a new need, difficulty, or opportunity materializes.

Saving money and being effective

You can only ever pay for the resources you actually utilize thanks to the cloud. This allows you access to resources that would be far too expensive and time-consuming for you to maintain on your own, which is related to scalability.

Scaling up IT is traditionally typically expensive. It involves advanced planning, can take months, expensive gear, electricity to keep everything running and cool, and trained IT workers to set it up (and keep it that way). Your cloud provider completes all of that on the cloud almost immediately.

Integration

By switching to the cloud, your company can more easily integrate its systems and increase the effectiveness of all its services. Just like any machine, data centers eventually suffer from increased load and lower efficiency. In the past, a company using a data center would need to undertake an infrastructure refresh on a regular basis to maintain its hardware and software current. This work wastes time and money since it is expensive, time-consuming, and constantly repeated. At the conclusion of a hardware refresh cycle, enterprises can now transfer apps to the cloud. The cloud provider updates the hardware and software, which saves money, time, and guarantees that applications are always supported by the most recent infrastructure.

IT Maintenance Will Be Reduced and Simplified

It takes a full-time job to maintain computer hardware and software. Literally. With the public cloud, you can eliminate the need for staff to devote time to laborious equipment maintenance that doesn't directly advance business goals. So that your tech experts can concentrate on achieving business objectives, your cloud service provider makes sure the infrastructure is in place.

Why AWS cloud migration is important to IT professionals?

In general, a cloud migration serves the same purposes as using the cloud itself: hosting applications and data in the most efficient IT environment possible based on aspects like cost, performance, and security.

Many businesses move their local data center's on-premises applications and data to public cloud infrastructure to benefit from features like increased elasticity, self-service provisioning, redundancy, and a flexible pay-per-use model.

What are the platforms that provide a multi-cloud environment?

Several platforms, including the following, multi-cloud environments

Microsoft Azure Stack

Google Cloud Anthos

AWS Outposts

VMware Cloud on AWS

Container-based PaaS, such as Cloud Foundry or Red Hat OpenShift.

Why there is a need to migrate to the AWS cloud?

With more than a million active customers and a presence in every major cloud region, AWS has expertise in assisting businesses of all sizes with workload migration to the cloud.

You can move any workload to AWS from an on-premises environment, a hosting facility, or another public cloud, including applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers, and even complete data centers. You can build your organizational, operational, and technical capabilities at each stage of the process by utilizing AWS's years of experience, which will enable you to realize business benefits more quickly.

Who can take this course?

Anyone who is interested in learning more about the variables in a cloud migration approach. For people who are capable of making decisions, this course might be especially useful (i.e management). IS/IT analysts and IT managers may find this training useful.

Whoever wants to learn how to move a virtual machine from on-premises to the AWS cloud

AWS newcomers seeking information about AWS Migrations

administrators of systems