Design Approach

• 6 R’s of Migration

• ReHost

• RePlatform

• RePurchase

• Refactor/Re-architect

• Retain

• Retire

Data Migration Strategy

Aws Services For Migration

• Import/Export Image
• AWS Server Migration Service
• AWS Migration Hub
• AWS Application Discovery
• Database Migration Service

Other useful Services for Migration

• AWS S3
• AWS Snowball
• StorSimple
• CloudWatch
• VPC and VPN

Highlevel overview of Migration

1. Import/Export Image:
   • One VM in VMWare
   • Export that to suitable format
   • Upload this format to AWS S3
   • Import to AWS AMI
2. Server Migration Service: (V2V)
   • Download an VM image from AWS
   • Create a VM with this image on your hypervisor (VMWare ESXI/Hyper-V)
   • Use this VM to Select & uplod other vms on Hypervisors