Migrating to AWS From an End-of-Life Data Center

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 1 minute and 37 seconds
Students: 3,160
Rating: 4.5/5

This lesson is a "live" scenario discussion where the Cloud Academy team tackle a migration project. Our customer needs to migrate out of their current data center by a certain date. They also would like to modernize their business applications. 

Our brief in the exercise is to deliver:

  • A target architecture that addresses the challenges described by the customer
  • A migration plan detailing how to move the service to AWS with minimal interruption
  • A recommendation on how to approach DR to achieve RPO of 24 hours and RTO of 4 hours
  • An application optimization plan with a proposed enhancement roadmap

As a scenario, this series of lectures is recorded "live" and so is less structured than other Cloud Academy lessons. As a cloud professional you often have to think and design quickly, so we have recorded some of the content this way to best emulate the type of conditions you might experience in the working environment. Watching the team approach this brief can help you define your own approaches and style to problem-solving.

Intended audience

This lesson discusses AWS services so it is best suited to students with some prior knowledge of AWS services. 

Prerequisites

We recommend completing the Fundamentals of AWS course before beginning this lesson. 

If you have thoughts or suggestions for this lesson, please contact Cloud Academy at support@cloudacademy.com.

 

Updates
22-01-2020: Duplicate lecture removed