Selecting Migration Tools and Services
In the previous chapter, you learned about some essential steps and strategies that all cloud solutions architects should keep in mind in order to plan and execute a successful application migration from on-premises data centers to the cloud.
In this chapter, we’ll take that knowledge and dive a bit deeper into the various tools, services, and strategies that AWS provides to facilitate such migration endeavors using the Assess, Mobilize, Migrate, and Modernize phases. Additionally, you will also explore mechanisms and operational best practices using which you can migrate the essential components of any application workload to the AWS cloud, such as raw data, the application’s backend systems, such as databases, and finally, the frontend servers that host the application and web tiers, respectively.
The following main topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Selecting an appropriate database transfer mechanism
- Selecting...