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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.