Migrating Microsoft workloads to AWS
summary
Overview of concrete migration choices: run Active Directory on EC2 or use AWS Managed Microsoft AD with cross‑region replication; run SQL Server on EC2 or Amazon RDS for SQL Server and move data with AWS DMS or native SQL distributed availability groups. Demonstration uses AWS Application Migration Service to replicate a two‑tier PHP + SQL Server app (50 GB DB took ~93 minutes) and launches test EC2 instances showing the final DB entry present, validating cutover works. Tools: App2Container, Web App Migration Assistant, EMP.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:47Migration journey
- 1:46Common Microsoft workload
- 2:11Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
- 2:53Self-managed Active Directory on Amazon EC2
- 4:00AWS Managed Microsoft AD
- 5:14Running SQL Server on AWS
- 6:26SQL Server migration paths
- 7:07Migrate SQL Server database using AWS DMS
- 8:29Migrate SQL Server instances with AWS MGN
- 9:25Migrate SQL Server database to Amazon EC2 using distributed availability groups
- 10:41Platforms to host your .NET application
- 11:55Windows Web Application Migration Assistant
- 13:51Replatforming your ASP.NET application
- 15:55End-of-Support Migration Program for Windows Server
- 17:22AWS MGN demo
- 25:53Learn migration with AWS Training and Certification
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