Assignment:
Postmigration Activities
Step 1: Postmigration Activities Overview
Like any software development project, migration projects require careful planning to ensure success. This planning includes the postmigration testing and maintenance phase. Start this project by researching and planning the postmigration activities that will be required to get BallotOnline's migrated workloads in a production-ready state.
Engage in an online conversation with your colleagues to discuss the postmigration approaches and activities in the Discussion: Postmigration Approaches and Activities.
After discussing the approaches, you will move on to the next step, where you will consider prerequisites, the tasks to be completed before monitoring and management.
Step 2: Explore AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is a service which enables defining components of cloud infrastructure in the form of templates, which are text files written according to predefined syntax rules. Templates allow for automated creation of infrastructure configurations without human intervention.
Explore CloudFormation and its templates, and browse templates provided by AWS.
Step 3: Compare Monitoring/Management Options in AWS
Now that you have explored CloudFormation, you will consider resource optimization. Controlling and optimizing the infrastructure can help BallotOnline reduce costs, improve security, and increase performance. The monitoring and management options and tools will help automate IT operations for BallotOnline in the cloud.
You've been asked to review two of the leading monitoring and management options available in AWS: AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Systems Manager.Compare the two options using the Cloud Monitoring and Management Comparison Template
Step 4: Evaluate and Configure AWS Trusted Advisor
In the previous step, you compared two maintenance and management tools, AWS Systems Manager and AWS Trusted Advisor, to gain an understanding of the capabilities of both resources. Sophia has asked you to get started by evaluating and configuring AWS Trusted Advisornext.
Step 5: Evaluate and Configure AWS Systems Manager
Now that you've finished the evaluation and configuration of AWS Trusted Advisor, you can set up AWS Systems Manager to execute simple automation workflows.
Step 6: Discuss and Review Final Cutover/Rollback Options
You've evaluated and configured AWS Systems Manager and AWS Trusted Advisor. Now, it's time to consider plans in case something goes awry and data becomes unavailable when the project goes live. In this step, you will discuss and review final cutover strategy and options to roll back the workloads to the original source in an event of any postmigration issues. You will include your cutover options and rollback plan as part of your final Cloud Migration Technical Report.
Before moving on to the next step, engage in an online conversation with your colleagues to discuss the final cutover/rollback options in the Discussion: Final Cutover and Rollback Options.
When you are finished, it's time for the final step, the report on postmigration.
Step 7: Write Cloud Postmigration Activity Report
At this point, you should have a better understanding of the cloud postmigration activities and the services that are available to manage and monitor cloud infrastructure in AWS. In your Postmigration Activity Report, you will provide BallotOnline with postmigration activities options and tool sets that align with BallotOnline's technical and business requirements.
The 10 to 12 page final document will consolidate the work that you have completed in the steps along with some additional elements (scope, executive summary, etc.) to create a comprehensive postmigration activity report. Sophia will present your work for approval at the executive meeting.
Use the Cloud Postmigration Report Template to make sure that you have included all the elements.