Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations and .NET Workloads

The Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations and .NET Workloads badge demonstrates proficiency with the AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations service and .NET workloads. This preparation guide explains what you need to know to pass the assessment, topic by topic, with resources you can review. You should also have hands-on experience using the service, either with your own applications or an AWS tutorial.

Once you have prepared, advance to Module 2 to take the assessment exam.

Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations (MHSR) helps you plan migration and modernization initiatives by offering migration and modernization strategy recommendations for viable transformation paths for your applications. It is a part of AWS Migration Hub which provides a single location to track migration tasks across multiple AWS tools and partner solutions. You use the AWS Migration Hub console to access the MHSR console. It also displays information about the servers that you are collecting data from.

MHSR can analyze your server inventory, runtime environment, and application binaries for Microsoft IIS and Java Tomcat and JBoss applications to generate anti-pattern reports. In addition, you can configure your source code to allow MHSR to perform source code and database analysis of all of your applications.

Infographic: Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations

MHSR User Guide: What is Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations?

MHSR recommends migration and modernization strategies for rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring with associated deployment destinations, tools, and programs. Strategy Recommendations compares this analysis with your business goals, and the transformation preferences of the applications and databases that you provided to recommend migration strategy and various AWS tools which you can use with each strategy.

AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations accelerates migration and modernization with:

• Single Source for Migration and Modernization: Strategy Recommendations leverages deep understanding of the many specialized AWS and partner migration and modernization tools to recommend not just a strategy but a path forward to transform your applications.
• Detailed Automated Analysis: Strategy Recommendations automates the manual process of analyzing each running application, its process dependencies and technical complexity to deliver detailed analysis of viable migration and modernization options enabling you to make more informed decisions.
• Accelerated Planning and Action: Strategy Recommendations cuts the time needed to analyze your entire application portfolio and offers portfolio-wide strategy recommendations helping you understand which applications in your portfolio you should rehost, replatform, or refactor and the effort involved so you can quickly meet your transformation goals.

Introducing AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations

Discover or import your on-premises server details

Use cases for MHSR include the following:

• Identify the most effective migration strategy for each of your applications.
• Identify migration and modernization tools or programs that you can use.
• Identify application incompatibilities and anti-patterns to resolve for a specific option.

What is Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations?

MHSR supports applications written in C# and Java. It also supports databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

• Applications running on Windows Server 2003 or above.
• Applications running on Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RedHat, Oracle Linux, Debian, and Fedora.
• Custom applications written in C# and Java.
• Licensed databases (such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle).

FAQs on Strategy Recommendations

There is a 5-step process to using MHSR:

Step 1: Download the Strategy Recommendations collector

Step 2: Deploy the Strategy Recommendations collector

Step 3: Sign in to the Strategy Recommendations collector

Step 4: Set up the Strategy Recommendations collector

Step 5: Use Strategy Recommendations in the Migration Hub console to get recommendations

Strategy Recommendations application data collector is a virtual appliance that you can install in your on-premises VMware environment. The Strategy Recommendations application data collector is also available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). If you want to use the AMI version of the collector to assess AWS applications or for some other reason, you don't need to download the collector.

Getting Started with Strategy Recommendations

You should understand these features:

1. Strategy recommendations
2. Application component recommendations
3. Server recommendations

New Strategy Recommendations Service Helps Streamline AWS Cloud Migration and Modernization

You should have some hands-on experience using MHSR. In addition to working with your own applications, you can get experience with these workshops and demos.

Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations workshop

Video: Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations by Geoff Weinhold