AWS Cloud Migration Services

  • AWS Cloud Migration services help to address a lot of common use cases such as
    • cloud migration,
    • disaster recovery,
    • data center decommission, and
    • content distribution.
  • For migrating data from On Premises to AWS, the major aspect for considerations are
    • amount of data and network speed
    • data security in transit
    • existing application knowledge for recreation

NOTE: Topic mainly for Professional Exam Only

VPN

  • connection utilizes IPSec to establish encrypted network connectivity between on-premises network and VPC over the Internet.
  • connections can be configured in minutes and a good solution for an immediate need, have low to modest bandwidth requirements, and can tolerate the inherent variability in Internet-based connectivity.
  • still requires internet and be configured using VGW and CGW

AWS EC2 VM Import/Export

  • allows easy import of virtual machine images from existing environment to EC2 instances and export them back to on-premises environment
  • allows leveraging of existing investments in the virtual machines, built to meet compliance requirements, configuration management and IT security by bringing those virtual machines into EC2 as ready-to-use instances
  • Common usages include
    • Migrate Existing Applications and Workloads to EC2, allows to preserve software and settings that configured in the existing VMs
    • Copy Your VM Image Catalog to Amazon EC2
    • Create a Disaster Recovery Repository for your VM images

AWS Direct Connect

  • provides a dedicated physical connection between the corporate network and AWS Direct Connect location with no data transfer over the Internet.
  • helps bypass Internet service providers (ISPs) in the network path
  • helps reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than with Internet-based connection
  • takes time to setup and involves third parties
  • are not redundant and would need another direct connect connection or a VPN connection
  • Security
    • provides a dedicated physical connection without internet
    • For additional security can be used with VPN

AWS Import/Export (upgraded to Snowball)

  • accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using secure Snowball appliances
  • AWS transfers the data directly onto and off of the storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network, bypassing the Internet
  • Data Migration
    • for significant data size, AWS Import/Export is faster than Internet transfer is and more cost-effective than upgrading the connectivity
    • if loading the data over the Internet would take a week or more, AWS Import/Export should be considered
    • data from appliances can be imported to S3, Glacier and EBS volumes and exported from S3
    • not suitable for applications that cannot tolerate offline transfer time
  • Security
    • Snowball uses an industry-standard Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that has a dedicated processor designed to detect any unauthorized modifications to the hardware, firmware, or software to physically secure the AWS Snowball device.

AWS Storage Gateway

  • connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure
  • provides low-latency performance by maintaining frequently accessed data on-premises while securely storing all of the data encrypted in S3 or Glacier.
  • for disaster recovery scenarios, Storage Gateway, together with EC2, can serve as a cloud-hosted solution that mirrors the entire production environment
  • Data Migration
    • with gateway-cached volumes, S3 can be used to hold primary data while frequently accessed data is cached locally for faster access reducing the need to scale on premises storage infrastructure
    • with gateway-stored volumes, entire data is stored locally while asynchronously backing up data to S3
    • with gateway-VTL, offline data archiving can be performed by presenting existing backup application with an iSCSI-based VTL consisting of a virtual media changer and virtual tape drives
  • Security
    • Encrypts all data in transit to and from AWS by using SSL/TLS.
    • All data in AWS Storage Gateway is encrypted at rest using AES-256.
    • Authentication between the gateway and iSCSI initiators can be secured by using Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP).

S3

  • Data Transfer
    • Files up to 5GB can be transferred using single operation
    • Multipart uploads can be used to upload files up to 5 TB and speed up data uploads by dividing the file into multiple parts
    • transfer rate still limited by the network speed
  • Security
    • Data in transit can be secured by using SSL/TLS or client-side encryption.
    • Encrypt data at-rest by performing server-side encryption using Amazon S3-Managed Keys (SSE-S3), AWS Key Management Service (KMS)-Managed Keys (SSE-KMS), or Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C). Or by performing client-side encryption using AWS KMS–Managed Customer Master Key (CMK) or Client-Side Master Key.

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