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Cloud Migration Strategy Considerations
Introduction to Cloud Migration Plan
Difficulty
Beginner
Duration
1h
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7534
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Description

Cloud Migration services from your on-premise environment can sometimes be very simple and other times an extremely complicated project to implement. For either scenario, there are always considerations to bear in mind when doing so. This course has been designed to highlight these topics to help you ask the right questions to aid in a successful Cloud migration.

Within this course, we look at how timing plays an important part in your project's success and why phased deployments are important. Security is also examined where we focus on a number of key questions that you should have answers to from a business perspective before your Cloud migration. One of the biggest decisions is your chosen public cloud vendor, how do you make the decision between the available vendors, what should you look for when selecting you will host your architecture, this course dives into this question to help you finalize your choice.

Understanding the correct deployment model is essential, it affects how you architect your environment and each provides different benefits, so gaining the knowledge. I look at how you can break this question down to help you with your design considerations. We also cover service readiness from your on-premise environment and how to align these to the relevant Cloud services. Your design will certainly be different from your on-premise solution, I discuss the best approach when you start to think about your solution design, some of the dos and some of the don’ts.

Once you have your design, it’s important to understand how you are actually going to migrate your services ensuring optimum availability and minimal interruption to your customer base, for example looking at Blue/Green and Canary deployments. Cloud migration allows for some great advantages within your business continuity plans, as a result, I have included a lecture to discuss various models that work great within the Cloud.

Course Objectives

By completing this course you will:

  • Have greater visibility of some of the key points of a cloud migration
  • Be able to confidently assess the requirements for your migration

Intended Audience

This course has been designed for anyone who works or operates in business management, business strategy, technical management, and technical operations.

Prerequisites

For this course, it's assumed that you have a working knowledge of cloud computing and cloud principles.

What You Will Learn about Cloud Migration

Introduction - This provides an introduction to the trainer and covers the intended audience. We will also look at what lectures are included in the course, and what you will gain as a student from attending the course.

Time Management – How time plays an important part in successful cloud migration. We discuss the key points to allow time for and how to use it to plan a phased migration.

Security – This lecture will give you the ability to ask the key security questions to the business before performing a migration to the Cloud.

Selecting a Vendor – Here you will learn how to define the best way to assess which vendor would be a good fit for your migration based on a number of considerations.

Selecting a Cloud Deployment Model – This discusses different Cloud deployment models where you will understand the differences between them before gaining insight to the questions you should be asking before making a decision as to which to select.

Are your services ready to move to the Cloud? – This lecture will help provide you with the ability to identify if your on-premise applications and services are ready to migrate to the Cloud. There are a number of issues that could arise which we dive into.

Alignment of Services – Here we learn how to categorize your current services and how to map them across to the Cloud service.

New Design – This lecture discusses the importance of not performing a ‘lift and shift’ from on-premise into the Cloud. We look at how this design should be addressed using high availability and other Cloud characteristics.

Migration and Deployment options – Here you will learn the differences between the different deployment methods that could be used and how to tackle the questions around migrating your data into the Cloud to start with.

Optimization and Cost Management – Here we look at some of the considerations around optimization of your costs and how you can achieve greater efficiency.

Business Continuity – The Cloud offers a number of different DR methods which are discussed here and you will be able to define the differences between these and when to you one method over the other.

Proof of Concept – In this lecture, you will learn the importance of implementing a proof of concept design before your production migration.

Summary - Lastly, we will take note of some of the important factors learned from the previous lectures.

If you have thoughts or suggestions for this course, please contact Cloud Academy at support@cloudacademy.com.

Transcript

Hello, and welcome to this course. If you have made the decision to adopt cloud computing, following your own cloud assessment within your business, then you will be faced with a number of questions and considerations before being able to plan and formulate how you are going to deploy your infrastructure. This course has been designed to help you build your cloud migration strategy while examining these considerations.

Before we begin, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stuart Scott. I'm one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy specializing in amazon web services, AWS. Feel free to connect with me with any questions using the details on the screen. Alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy using the community form on our website, where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question or query.

Okay, let's move on and take a look at who this course is intended for.

The intended audience of this course are those in a position of business management, business strategy, technical management, and technical operations.

Let's now take a look at what we will cover throughout this course. Of course, when talking about a cloud migration for different organizations, there will be different points of interest and requirements. However, these are some of the key factors you should address in your strategy: time management, security, vendor selection, selection of cloud deployment model, service readiness, alignment of services, new designs, migration and deployment options, optimization and cost management, business continuity, a proof of concept, and then, finally, we'll finish this course with a summary of what we've learned.

There are a number of points that you will take from this course that will help you with your strategy planning. You will have a greater visibility of some of the key points of a cloud migration. And you'll be able to confidently assess the requirements for your migration.

Now there is a pre-requisite for this course. It's assumed that you have a working knowledge of cloud computing and cloud principles. That's it for this lecture. In the next lecture, we'll start looking at how timing plays a big part of your migration strategy.

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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.