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AWS Utility Migration Service simplifies, expedites, and reduces the price of migrating your purposes to AWS. It means that you can elevate and shift many bodily, digital, or cloud servers with out compatibility points, efficiency disruption, or lengthy cutover home windows. You possibly can reduce time-intensive, error-prone guide processes by automating replication and conversion of your supply servers from bodily, digital, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS through the use of Utility Migration Service for migration. Earlier this yr, we launched main enhancements, comparable to a server migration metrics dashboard, import and export, and extra post-launch modernization actions.
Right this moment, I’m happy to announce three main updates to Utility Migration Service. Right here’s the fast abstract for every characteristic launch:
- World View – You possibly can handle large-scale migrations throughout a number of accounts. This characteristic offers you each visibility and the power to carry out particular actions on supply servers, apps, and waves in several AWS accounts.
- Import and Export from Native Disk – Now you can use Utility Migration Service to import your supply setting stock record to the service from a CSV file in your native disk. You may as well export your supply server stock record from the service to a CSV file and obtain it to your native disk. You possibly can proceed leveraging the beforehand launched import and export performance to and from an S3 bucket.
- Further Publish-launch Actions – On this replace, Utility Migration Service added 4 further predefined post-launch actions. These actions are utilized to your migrated purposes whenever you launch them on AWS.
Let me share how you should utilize these options on your migration.
World View
World View offers you the visibility and the power to carry out particular actions on supply servers, purposes, and waves in several AWS accounts. World view makes use of AWS Organizations to construction a administration account (which has entry to supply servers in a number of member accounts) and member accounts (which solely have entry to their very own supply servers).
To make use of this characteristic, that you must have an AWS account by which AWS Utility Migration Service is initialized. This account have to be an admin in AWS Organizations or a delegated admin for AWS Utility Migration Service. You possibly can view the World View web page on the Utility Migration Service web page within the AWS Administration Console by deciding on World View within the left navigation menu.
You need to use the worldwide view characteristic to see supply servers, purposes and waves throughout a number of managed accounts and carry out varied actions, together with:
- Launching check and cutover situations throughout accounts
- Monitoring migration execution progress throughout accounts
The principle World View web page offers an outline of your account and this info modifications relying on whether or not you have got a administration account or a member account.
In a administration account, you’ll be able to see the AWS organizations permissions, the rely of linked accounts, and the full variety of supply servers, purposes, and waves below Account info. The Linked accounts part shows the related info on your linked accounts. It exhibits all of the linked accounts this account has entry to, together with the account you’re logged into (the administration account) and the member accounts which are linked to it. If the administration account has entry to 2 further member accounts, the Linked accounts part will present three accounts. It’s the full variety of accounts which are seen via this administration account (together with itself). For member accounts, this web page solely shows the account info that features the AWS organizations permissions and the variety of supply servers, purposes, and waves within the particular account.
In your administration account, you’ll be able to entry and assessment supply servers, purposes and waves inside your account and throughout all member accounts. As a supervisor, you’ll be able to select between All accounts and My account from the drop-down menu, which lets you change you view of introduced supply servers, purposes or waves.
Import and Export from Native Disk
A complete information middle stock varieties the muse of any profitable migration endeavor. This stock encompasses a complete record of servers and purposes managed by clients on premises. The stock is categorized into migration waves to facilitate environment friendly migration planning.
Sometimes, this stock is compiled utilizing discovery instruments or created manually by IT directors. Maybe you keep your information middle stock in Excel spreadsheets. With Utility Migration Service, we provide seamless assist for importing your stock record from a CSV file, which follows a format much like the one utilized by Cloud Migration Manufacturing unit.
Within the earlier launch, Utility Migration Service supported the choice to import a file from Amazon S3 and export a file to Amazon S3. On this newest launch, Utility Migration Service helps the choice to import a file from native disk and export a file to native disk. This makes it straightforward so that you can handle giant scale-migrations and ingest your stock of supply servers, purposes and waves, together with their attributes comparable to EC2 occasion kind, subnet and tags. These attributes are the parameters used to populate the EC2 launch template.
To start out utilizing the import characteristic, that you must determine your servers and software stock. You are able to do this manually or utilizing discovery instruments. The subsequent factor that you must do is obtain the import template, which you’ll entry from the console.
After you obtain the import template, you can begin mapping your stock record onto this template. Whereas mapping your stock, you’ll be able to group associated servers into purposes and waves. You may as well carry out configurations, comparable to defining Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) launch template settings and specifying tags for every wave.
The next screenshot is an instance of the outcomes of my import template.
On the Utility Migration Service web page within the AWS Administration Console, choose Import on the left-side navigation menu (below Import and Export). Beneath the Import stock tab, choose Import from native disk. Choose Select file and select the native file containing your stock record. Choose Import, and the stock file is imported into Utility Migration Service. When the import course of is full, the small print of the import outcomes seem.
Now, you’ll be able to view all of your stock contained in the Supply servers, Functions, and Waves pages on the Utility Migration Service console.
To export your stock to an area file, choose Export on the left-side navigation menu of the Utility Migration Service web page. Beneath Export stock tab, select Export to native disk. Specify the title of the file to obtain below Vacation spot filename. Select Export, and the stock file downloads to your native disk. Utility Migration Service makes use of an S3 bucket inside your account for the import and export operations, even when utilizing native disk. You should have the required permissions to carry out this motion. You possibly can modify the exported stock file and reimport it to carry out bulk configuration updates throughout your stock. When the worldwide view characteristic is activated upon reimport, configuration modifications are utilized additionally throughout accounts.
Further Publish-launch Actions
Publish-launch actions permit you to management and automate actions carried out after your servers have been launched in AWS. You need to use predefined or customized post-launch actions.
Utility Migration Service now has 4 further predefined post-launch actions to run in your Amazon EC2 situations on prime of the prevailing predefined post-launch actions. These further post-launch actions offer you flexibility to maximise your migration expertise.
The brand new 4 further predefined post-launch actions are as follows:
- Configure Time Sync – You need to use the Time Sync characteristic to set the time on your Linux occasion utilizing ATSS.
- Validate disk house – You need to use the disk house validation characteristic to acquire visibility into the disk house and to make sure that you have got sufficient accessible disk house in your goal server.
- Confirm HTTP(S) response – You need to use the Confirm HTTP(S) response characteristic to conduct HTTP(S) connectivity checks to a predefined record of URLs. The characteristic verifies the connectivity to the launched goal occasion.
- Allow Amazon Inspector – The Allow Amazon Inspector characteristic means that you can run safety scans in your Amazon EC2 assets, together with the goal situations launched by Utility Migration Service. The Amazon Inspector service is enabled on the account degree. This motion makes use of the
Allow,BatchGetAccountStatus,andCreateServiceLinkedRoleAPIs.
Now Accessible
The World View, Import and Export Characteristic from Native, and Further Publish-launch Actions can be found now, and you can begin utilizing them at this time in all Areas the place AWS Utility Migration Service is supported. Go to the Utility Migration Service Consumer Information to dive deeper into these thrilling options and you may discuss with the Getting began with AWS Utility Migration Service to kickstart your workload migration to AWS.
—Irshad
