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| Nairobi, Kenya | 5 Days | KES 115,000 | USD 1,500 | Enroll |
| Kigali, Rwanda | 5 Days | USD 1,900 | USD 1,900 | Enroll |
| Kampala, Uganda | 5 Days | USD 1,900 | USD 1,900 | Enroll |
| Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 5 Days | USD 2,000 | USD 2,000 | Enroll |
| Dubai, UAE | 5 Days | USD 3,900 | USD 3,900 | Enroll |
| Abuja, Nigeria | 5 Days | USD 4,000 | USD 4,000 | Enroll |
| Accra, Ghana | 5 Days | USD 4,000 | USD 4,000 | Enroll |
| Pretoria, South Africa | 5 Days | USD 3,900 | USD 3,900 | Enroll |
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About the Course
Cloud adoption is a critical step for organizations seeking agility, scalability, and operational efficiency. However, moving workloads to the cloud requires careful planning, execution, and post-migration optimization to ensure security, performance, and cost efficiency.
This course equips participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, manage, and execute cloud migrations effectively. Participants will learn strategies for assessing workloads, designing migration plans, choosing the right migration approach, migrating data and applications, and validating post-migration performance. Real-world exercises, case studies, and hands-on activities provide practical experience to prepare IT teams for a smooth transition to cloud environments while minimizing business disruption
Target Participants
This training is designed for IT staff involved in cloud adoption initiatives, including system administrators, cloud architects, DevOps engineers, application owners, project managers, and IT managers. Staff responsible for assessing workloads, planning migrations, managing data transfers, configuring cloud resources, or monitoring post-migration performance will benefit.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Assess organizational workloads for cloud readiness
- Develop comprehensive cloud migration strategies and roadmaps
- Select appropriate migration approaches for applications and data
- Execute migration activities securely and efficiently
- Validate and optimize workloads post-migration
- Monitor cloud environments and manage operational continuity
Course Duration
One week
Course Outline
Introduction to Cloud Migration
- Overview of cloud computing and cloud adoption drivers
- Benefits of migrating to the cloud
- Cloud migration challenges and risks
- Overview of cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Cloud deployment models
Migration Planning and Strategy
- Assessing organizational readiness for cloud migration
- Defining business objectives and success criteria
- Identifying workloads and applications for migration
- Establishing migration timelines and milestones
- Resource planning and team roles
Workload Assessment
- Inventory of applications and infrastructure
- Dependency mapping and architecture analysis
- Evaluating application complexity and cloud suitability
- Risk assessment for workloads
- Cost-benefit analysis for migration
Migration Approaches
- Lift and Shift (Rehost) method
- Replatforming (Lift, Tinker, Shift) method
- Refactoring or Re-architecting for cloud-native
- Repurchasing with SaaS adoption
- Hybrid migration strategies
Data Migration
- Planning data migration to cloud storage
- Selecting tools for data transfer (AWS DMS, Snowball, S3 Transfer)
- Data validation and integrity checks
- Migration sequencing and prioritization
- Handling large-scale datasets and bandwidth considerations
Application Migration
- Application packaging and deployment in the cloud
- Compatibility checks with cloud services
- Testing applications pre-migration
- Deployment using cloud-native tools
- Application rollback strategies in case of issues
Security in Migration
- Understanding security responsibilities during migration
- Data encryption and secure transfer mechanisms
- Identity management and access controls
- Regulatory compliance considerations
- Auditing migration activities
Testing and Validation
- Functional testing post-migration
- Performance benchmarking in cloud environment
- Integration testing with existing systems
- Monitoring workloads during cutover
- Issue tracking and resolution
Post-Migration Optimization
- Resource optimization for cost efficiency
- Performance tuning and monitoring
- Scaling workloads using cloud-native features
- Automating backups and disaster recovery
- Continuous improvement strategies
Best Practices in Migration
- Developing migration governance frameworks
- Documentation of migration processes
- Change management for cloud adoption
- Knowledge transfer and team readiness
Training Approach
This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in their respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, presentations, group works and case studies.
Training notes and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.
Certification
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued a certificate.
Tailor-Made Course
We can also do this as a tailor-made course to meet organization-wide training needs. A training needs assessment will be done on the training participants to collect data on the existing skills, knowledge gaps, training expectations, and tailor-made needs.
