Migration strategies

14 min · Module 7

7 Rs: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain, Relocate. Tools: Application Migration Service (MGN) for lift-and-shift, Database Migration Service (DMS) for DB moves, Snow Family for large offline data.

Example / notes

# Large petabyte dataset, poor/expensive WAN → Snowball/Snowmobile family
# Continuous DB replication → DMS (+ SCT for schema conversion when needed)
# Rehost servers → MGN

Practice in Lab: /lab/scenarios/hybrid-vpn/

Hybrid networking exam scenarios →

Modules in this track

6. HA, cost & security patterns
- High availability patterns
- Cost and security tradeoffs
7. Migration & hybrid scenarios
- Migration strategies
- Hybrid networking exam scenarios