Migration

Question 1

Snow Family: Snowball

Answer 1

Snowballs are perfect for moving many Tbs of data > 48-81

Question 2

SnowCone & SnowMobile

Answer 2

They won’t really be on the exam too much, know the basics

Question 3

Snowball Use Case

Answer 3

best used in situations where you have slow to no internet. Snowball is faster & more secure in these situations

Question 4

Storage Gateway

Answer 4

Hybrid: Anytime on-prem storage is brought up, think, “Which version of storage gateway could complete not this”

Out of Space: File Gateway is the perfect solution if your local network attached storage is full

It’s a VM: Storage Gateway is run locally as a VM on-prem

Question 5

Data Sync

Answer 5

Is an agent-based solution that excels @ one-time migrations of file shares into AWS

Question 6

EFS & FSX

Answer 6

Are both locations for Datasync to transfer content into

Question 7

Transfer Family

Answer 7

Allows you to use legacy file transfer protocols to give older apps the ability to read & write to & from S3

Question 8

Migration Hub

Answer 8

Organizational tool that gives you a way to organize all your steps. you’ll need other tools to complete the migration though

Question 9

Database Migration Service

Answer 9

Is your go to tool for any sort of DB migration. It works for on-prem to the cloud, or for moving data between different RDS DBs

Question 10

Server Migration Service

Answer 10

The tool you’ll want to use to migrate out of the data center into AWS