Section 16: Migration and Transfer

Question 1

AWS Application Discovery Service

Answer 1

AWS Application Discovery Service (Application Discovery Service) helps you plan application migration projects. It automatically identifies servers, virtual machines (VMs), and network dependencies in your on-premises data centers

Question 2

AWS Application Migration Service

Answer 2

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) is a highly automated lift-and-shift (rehost) solution that simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of migrating applications to AWS.

Question 3

AWS DataSync

Answer 3

• Secure, online service that automates and accellerates moving data between on premise and AWS Storage services
• DataSync can copy data between:
  
  • Network File System shares
  • Server Message blocks
  • Hadoop distrubtuted file systems
  • self-managed object storage
  • AWS Snowcone
  • AWS S3 buckets
    
    • AWS Elastic File system
    • Amazon FSx (wINDOWS, Lustre etc)

Question 4

AWS Snowcone

Answer 4

AWS Snowcone is a portable, rugged, and secure device for edge computing and data transfer. You can use a Snowcone device to collect, process, and move data to the AWS Cloud, either offline by shipping the device to AWS, or online by using AWS DataSync

Question 5

AWS Snowball Family

Answer 5

• Uses a secure storage device for phyiscal transportation
• Snowball Client is software that is installed on a local compputer and is used to identify, compress, encrypt and transfter data
• uses 256-bit encryption (managed with AWS KMS) and tamper-resistant encloures with Trust Platform Modules
• Snowball (80TB, 50TB)
• Snowball Edge (100TB)
• Snowmobile (up to 100 PB)

Use cases:
* cloud data migration
* content distrubution
* tactical edge computing
* machine learning
* manufacturing
* remote data locations with simple data

Question 6

An organization must transfer 100 TB of data into AWS within the next 2 weeks and cannot use their internet links. What should a solutions architect recommend?

Answer 6

Order two Snowball devices

The solutions architect could order 2x 50TB Snowball devices.

Question 7

Which source platforms are supported for migrating VMs using AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)?

Answer 7

VMware, Hyper-V, Azure

Question 8

What does an organization need to pay for when using AWS DataSync?

Answer 8

Per GB transferred and storage

Question 9

A company is looking to migrate 50PBs of data to AWS. Which Snowball family member would you recommend they use?

Answer 9

Snowmobile

Snowmobile can transfer up to 100PBs of data.

Question 10

When using AWS Data Sync, data in transit is encrypted in transit with which protocol

Answer 10

TLS

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is used by AWS Data Sync to encrypt data in transit.

Question 11

Cheat sheets

Answer 11

AWS Migration Services - https://digitalcloud.training/aws-migration-services/