Module 9: Migration and Innovation

Question 1

What 6 perspectives are considered in the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework? (hint: split into business capabilities and technical capabilities)

Answer 1

Business, People and Governance - Business

Platform, Security and Operations - Technical

Question 2

List the 6 AWS migration strategies (hint: also known as the 6Rs)

Answer 2

Rehost 
Replatform
Rearchitect
Repurchase
Retain
Retire

Question 3

What is rehost?

Answer 3

Lift and shift

Question 4

What is replatform?

Answer 4

Lift and tinker and shift

Question 5

What is repurchase?

Answer 5

Moving to a different product. E.g. moving a CRM to Salesforce or HR management to Workday.

Question 6

What are retain and retire, broadly and specifically?

Answer 6

Broadly, they are not migrations at all.
Retain - leave as is
Retire - switch some stuff off

Question 7

What is the AWS Snow services and the 3 levels: Snowcone, Snowball, Snowmobile?

Answer 7

AWS Snow is the physical moving of data via storage devices.
Snowcone - small secure data transfer up to 8 TB
Snowball - Edge storage or Edge compute optimized 80TB
Snowmobile - Up to 100 Petabytes of data

Question 8

What are the 5 pillars of the Well-Architected Framework?

Answer 8

Operational excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance efficiency
Cost optimization