Migration Considerations for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Course Description:

Sensitive workloads must meet specific compliance standards to earn an authorization to operate. State and federal U.S. government agencies, as well as various nonprofits and corporations, have the option to migrate their sensitive workloads to AWS GovCloud (US). AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are designed with these types of workloads in mind. This digital course contains resources and videos that will help you make better-informed decisions when migrating applications and data from on premises and standard AWS Regions to AWS GovCloud (US).

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 3 hours

• Activities

  This course includes presentations and videos.

  
  

  Course objectives

  In this course, you will learn to do the following :

  • Differentiate between standard and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
  • Identify the compliance standards associated with AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
  • Describe the key considerations in moving on-premises resources to AWS GovCloud (US)
  • Describe the key considerations in moving AWS standard Regions resources to AWS GovCloud (US)
  • List the application and data migration tools available for AWS GovCloud (US) customers

  Intended audience

  This course is intended for people in the following positions:

  • Data migration professionals
  • Systems operations managers
  • Solutions architects
  • Mission owners
  • Government and contractor leaders

  
  

  Prerequisites

  There are no prerequisites for this course.

  
  

  Course Outline

  Day1

  Module 1: AWS GovCloud (US)Overview

  • AWS Standard and AWS GovCloud (US) Partitions
  • Use Cases for AWS GovCloud (US)
  • AWS GovCloud (US) Account Requirements
  • Compliance Standards Supported by AWS GovCloud (US)

  
  

  Module 2: AWS Standard Regions to AWS GovCloud (US) Considerations

  • Service Parity Considerations
  • Authentication Differences

  
  

  Module 3: On-Premises to AWS GovCloud (US) Considerations

  • Security on AWS
  • Cloud Migration Basics
  • Hybrid Connectivity with AWS Direct Connect

  
  

  Module 4: AWS GovCloud (US) Migration Tools Overview

  • AWS Server Migration Service
  • AWS Database Migration Service
  • VM Import/Export
  • AWS Snowball Edge
  • CloudEndure Migration
  • AWS GovCloud (US) Import Tool
  • AWS Storage Gateway
  • AWS Schema Conversion Tool