AWS Migration Evaluator: Planning Cost-Effective Cloud Migrations

Planning a migration to the cloud can feel overwhelming without clear data on costs and resource requirements. This text-only course guides you through AWS Migration Evaluator, helping you accurately project and optimize your cloud expenditures before moving a single workload. You will learn how to discover on-premises assets, analyze utilization patterns, and estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) for running your workloads in the cloud. By understanding how to map local servers to right-sized cloud resources, you will build a compelling, data-backed business case for migration. What you'll learn: - Understand the core terminology and phases of cloud migration planning. - Configure data collection tools to securely gather on-premises inventory and utilization metrics. - Analyze server, storage, and software license data to identify cost-saving opportunities. - Apply FinOps principles to compare on-premises costs with optimized cloud alternatives. - Create comprehensive business cases to justify migration decisions to stakeholders. The course begins with foundational cloud migration concepts and terminology before walking you through the setup, data collection, and analysis workflows of Migration Evaluator. You will wrap up by reviewing practical scenarios to practice mapping workloads to the most cost-effective cloud configurations. This course is designed for IT administrators, business analysts, and cloud beginners who want to understand the financial and technical planning of a cloud migration. No prior cloud experience or technical prerequisites are required. Start reading today to master the fundamentals of cloud migration planning and cost optimization.