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). 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. 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