Migration Tips

Migration Strategies

• understand the different strategies that companies might undertake when deciding if the cloud is right for them.
• understand the typical trade-offs and relative benefits for each strategy.

Cloud Adoption Framework

• Know what "framework" is and the realistic expectations that should accompany it.
• Understand the high-level components of the Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Most importantly, kno that cloud adoption is only partially a technology effort.

Hybrid architecture

• Be able to speak to some typical hybrid architectures that leverage both on-prem and cloud assets.
• Know that VMware has some nifty tools for abstracting the differences between on-prem and cloud.

Migrations

• Understand the different types of migrations that can be undertaken.
• Know the tools that AWS provides to help with migrations.
• Understand the different types of data migrations that can be undertaken.
• Know the tools that AWS provides to help with data migrations.

Network migration and cutover

• Know various hybrid network architectures.
• Understand that smooth transitions from and to VPN and direct connect can be done using BGP routing; abrupt routes changes risk downtime.