Discovering Applications to Migrate by Using AWS Application Discovery Services (ADS)

With AWS Application Discovery Service, customers can plan migration projects by gathering information about on-premises data centers. The Application Discovery Service agents collect configuration, usage, and behavior data from servers about the workloads they run. You can use the collected data to help estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) of running on AWS and to plan a migration to AWS. You can also view the data in AWS Migration Hub, where you can plan to migrate the discovered servers to AWS and follow the migration progress.


In this lab, you install Application Discovery Service agents, and use the AWS AWS Migration Hub to view the collected data.

Level

Advanced

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Install the discovery service agent and collect data.
• Browse discovered data and network connections.
• Get Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance recommendations from the discovery data.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Systems Operators

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Navigate the AWS Management Console.
• Use shell commands in Linux environments.
• Use a Remote Desktop client to connect to a remote instance, such as one of the following:
  • Remove Desktop Client on Windows computers (run MSTSC.exe to open the client.)
  • Microsoft Remote Desktop on Mac computers
  • Remmina (https://remmina.org/) on Linux computers

Course Outline

• Task 1: Installing Application Discovery Service agents
• Task 2: Browsing discovered data
• Task 3: Generating EC2 instance recommendations