This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the key concepts and considerations involved in planning large scale data migrations to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Â The topics include reasons for migrating data to AWS, reviewing available AWS services for data migrations, and examining planning requirements for large scale data migrations to AWS. Â Students will explore common large scale data migration scenarios and recommended solutions. Students will learn how to create a data migration plan using the appropriate AWS service.
- Course level: Intermediate
- Duration: 1 hour
Activities
This course includes: knowledge check questions.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Identify common large scale data migration challenges to AWS
- Identify which AWS service to use for large scale data migrations
- Describe planning requirements for large scale data migrations to AWS
- Articulate how AWS DataSync, Amazon S3 File Gateway, and AWS Snowball Edge services migrate data to AWS
- Develop a preliminary migration plan to transfer large scale data to AWS
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
- Cloud architects
- Data Engineers
- Business decision makers
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Getting Started with AWS Storage
Course outline
Section 1: Overview
- Lesson 1: How to Use This Course
- Lesson 2: Course Overview
Section 2: Course Introduction
- Lesson 3: Data migration overview
- Lesson 4: Large scale data migration challenges
Section 3: AWS services for data migrations
- Lesson 5: AWS DataSync
- Lesson 6: Amazon S3 File Gateway
- Lesson 7: AWS Snowball Edge
- Lesson 8: Check your understanding: AWS services
Section 4: Working with a data migration plan
- Lesson 9: Overview of a large-scale data migration plan
- Lesson 10: Data migration framework components
- Lesson 11: Check your understanding: data migration planning
Section 5: Four common large scale data migration use cases
- Lesson 12: Use case 1: Closing a data center
- Lesson 13: Use case 2: Hybrid data storage
- Lesson 14: Use case 3: Ongoing data duplication into AWS
- Lesson 15: Large data analysis using AWS compute services
Section 6: Create your data migration plan
- Lesson 16: Getting started with your plan
Section 7: Resources and Feedback
- Lesson 17: Resources
- Lesson 18: Feedback
