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AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) can simplify and expedite your migration to AWS by robotically changing your supply servers from bodily, digital, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. In the put up, How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Server for Lift-and-Shift Migrations, Channy launched us to Application Migration Service and the right way to get began.
By utilizing Application Migration Service for migration, you possibly can decrease time-intensive, error-prone guide processes by automating replication and conversion of your supply servers from bodily, digital, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. Last 12 months, we introduced main enhancements reminiscent of new migration servers grouping, an account-level launch template, and a post-launch actions template.
Today, I’m happy to announce three main updates of Application Migration Service. Here’s the short abstract for every function launch:
- Import and export – You can now use Application Migration Service to import your supply atmosphere stock listing to the service from a CSV file. You may export your supply server stock for reporting functions, offline critiques and updates, integration with different instruments and AWS providers, and performing bulk configuration modifications by reimporting the stock listing.
- Server migration metrics dashboard – This new dashboard may also help simplify migration venture administration by offering an aggregated view of the migration lifecycle standing of your supply servers
- Additional post-launch modernization actions – In this replace, Application Migration Service added eight further predefined post-launch actions. These actions are utilized to your migrated functions whenever you launch them on AWS.
Let me share how you need to use these options in your migration.
Import and Export
Before we go additional into the import and export options, let’s focus on two ideas inside Application Migration Service: applications and waves, which you’ll be able to outline when migrating with Application Migration Service. Applications signify a gaggle of servers. By utilizing functions, you possibly can outline teams of servers and determine them as an utility. Within your utility, you possibly can carry out numerous actions with Application Migration Service, reminiscent of monitoring, specifying tags, and performing bulk operations, for instance, launching take a look at cases. Additionally, you possibly can group your functions into waves, which signify a gaggle of servers which might be migrated collectively, as a part of your migration plan.
With the import function, now you can import your stock listing in CSV type into Application Migration Service. This makes it simple so that you can handle massive scale-migrations, and ingest your stock of supply servers, functions and waves, together with their attributes.
To begin utilizing the import function, I must determine my servers and utility stock. I can do that manually, or utilizing discovery instruments. The subsequent factor I must do is obtain the import template which I can entry from the console.
After I downloaded the import template, I can begin mapping from my stock listing into this template. While mapping my stock, I can group associated servers into functions and waves. I may carry out configurations, reminiscent of defining Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) launch template settings, and specifying tags for every wave.
The following screenshot is an instance of the outcomes of my import template:
The subsequent step is to add my CSV file to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Then, I can begin the import course of from the Application Migration Service console by referencing the CSV file containing my stock listing that I’ve uploaded to the S3 bucket.
When the import course of is full, I can see the small print of the import outcomes.
I can import stock for servers that don’t have an agent put in, or haven’t but been found by agentless replication. However, to copy information, I want to make use of agentless replication, or set up the AWS Replication Agent on my supply servers.
Now I can view all my stock contained in the Source servers, Applications and Waves pages on the Application Migration Service console. The following is a screenshot for lately imported waves.
In addition, with the export function, I can export my supply servers, functions, and waves together with all configurations that I’ve outlined right into a CSV file.
This is useful if you wish to do reporting or offline critiques, or for bulk modifying earlier than reimporting the CSV file into Application Migration Service.
Server Migration Metrics Dashboard
We beforehand supported a migration metrics dashboard for functions and waves. In this launch, we have now particularly added a migration metrics dashboard for servers. Now you possibly can view aggregated overviews of your server’s migration course of on the Application Migration Service dashboard. Three subjects can be found within the migration metrics dashboard:
- Alerts – Shows related alerts for respective servers.
- Data replication standing – Shows the replication information overview standing for supply servers. Here, you get a fast overview of the lifecycle standing of the replication information course of.
- Migration lifecycle – Shows an outline of the migration lifecycle from supply servers.
Additional Predefined Post-launch Modernization Actions
Post-launch actions let you management and automate actions carried out after your servers have been launched in AWS. You can use predefined or use customized post-launch actions.
Application Migration Service now has eight further predefined post-launch actions to run in your EC2 cases on high of the prevailing 4 predefined post-launch actions. These further post-launch actions offer you flexibility to maximise your migration expertise.
The new further predefined post-launch actions are as follows:
- Convert MS-SQL license – You can simply convert Windows MS-SQL BYOL to an AWS license utilizing the Windows MS-SQL license conversion motion. The launch course of contains checking the SQL version (Enterprise, Standard, or Web) and utilizing the correct AMI with the correct billing code.
- Create AMI from occasion – You can create a brand new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) out of your Application Migration Service launched occasion.
- Upgrade Windows model – This function lets you simply improve your migrated server to Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, or 2022. You can see the total listing of accessible OS variations on AWSEC2-CloneInstanceAndUpgradeWindows web page.
- Conduct EC2 connectivity checks – You can conduct community connectivity checks to a predefined listing of ports and hosts utilizing the EC2 connectivity examine function.
- Validate quantity integrity – You can use this function to make sure that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes on the launched occasion are the identical dimension because the supply, correctly mounted on the EC2 occasion, and accessible.
- Verify course of standing – You can validate the method standing to make sure that processes are in a working state after occasion launch. You might want to present an inventory of processes that you simply wish to confirm and specify how lengthy the service ought to wait earlier than testing begins. This function helps you to do the wanted validations robotically and saves time by not having to do them manually.
- CloudWatch agent set up – Use the Amazon CloudWatch agent set up function to put in and arrange the CloudWatch agent and Application Insights options.
- Join Directory Service area – You can simplify the AWS be a part of area course of by utilizing this function. If you select to activate this motion, your occasion will likely be managed by the AWS Cloud Directory (as a substitute of on premises).
Things to Know
Keep in thoughts the next:
- Updated UI/UX – We have up to date the consumer interface with card structure and desk structure view for the motion listing on the Application Migration Service console. This replace lets you decide which post-launch actions are appropriate in your use case . We have additionally added filter choices to make it simple to search out related actions by working system, class, and extra.
- Support for extra OS variations – Application Migration Service now helps CentOS 5.5 and later and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 and later working methods.
- Availability – These options can be found now, and you can begin utilizing them immediately in all Regions the place Application Migration Service is supported.
Get Started Today
Visit the Application Migration Service User Guide web page to study extra about these options and perceive the pricing. You may go to Getting began with AWS Application Migration Service to study extra about the right way to get began emigrate your workloads.
Happy migrating!
— Donnie