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Training and Certification

AWS Migration Essentials

Gain the skills to plan and perform lift and shift migrations

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AWS Migration Essentials

Do you need to learn how to migrate data and applications to the AWS Cloud? The AWS Migration Essentials course is led by an expert AWS instructor who will help you learn to plan and perform lift and shift migrations to the AWS Cloud. This one-day, fundamental-level course will help you learn the methodologies for discovering, planning, performing, and tracking migrations by using various AWS tools and services. You will learn to use AWS Services to assess, mobilize, migrate, and modernize your data, databases, and applications. You can practice new skills in a real AWS environment with hands-on labs that cover database and application migration.

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Course overview

  • Level: Fundamental
  • Type: Classroom (virtual and in person)
  • Length: 1 day
  • Determine cloud readiness and migration strategies using assessment tools and services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Articulate the key tasks involved in planning and mobilizing migrations
  • Describe, at a high level, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, resources, and tools necessary for migrations of data and databases
  • Describe, at a high level, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, resources, and tools necessary for migrations of applications
  • And much more

Technical roles with limited to no knowledge on cloud migration including:

  • Solutions architects
  • Developers
  • Administrators

We recommend that attendees of this course have taken:

This course is offered in English.

We regularly update our courses based on customer feedback and AWS service updates. As a result, course content may vary between languages while we localize these updates.