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AWS Utility Migration Service simplifies, expedites, and reduces the price of migrating your functions to AWS. It lets you carry and shift many bodily, digital, or cloud servers with out compatibility points, efficiency disruption, or lengthy cutover home windows. You’ll be able to decrease 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 by utilizing Utility Migration Service for migration. Earlier this 12 months, we launched main enhancements, corresponding to a server migration metrics dashboard, import and export, and extra post-launch modernization actions.
At the 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’ll be able to handle large-scale migrations throughout a number of accounts. This characteristic supplies you each visibility and the flexibility to carry out particular actions on supply servers, apps, and waves in numerous AWS accounts.
- Import and Export from Native Disk – Now you can use Utility Migration Service to import your supply surroundings stock listing to the service from a CSV file in your native disk. You too can export your supply server stock listing from the service to a CSV file and obtain it to your native disk. You’ll be able to proceed leveraging the beforehand launched import and export performance to and from an S3 bucket.
- Extra Put up-launch Actions – On this replace, Utility Migration Service added 4 extra predefined post-launch actions. These actions are utilized to your migrated functions whenever you launch them on AWS.
Let me share how you should utilize these options on your migration.
World View
World View supplies you the visibility and the flexibility to carry out particular actions on supply servers, functions, and waves in numerous 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, it’s worthwhile to 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’ll be able to 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, functions and waves throughout a number of managed accounts and carry out varied actions, together with:
- Launching take a look at and cutover situations throughout accounts
- Monitoring migration execution progress throughout accounts
The principle World View web page supplies an outline of your account and this data modifications relying on whether or not you’ve gotten 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 entire variety of supply servers, functions, and waves beneath Account data. The Linked accounts part shows the related data 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 can be linked to it. If the administration account has entry to 2 extra member accounts, the Linked accounts part will present three accounts. It’s the entire variety of accounts which can be seen by way of this administration account (together with itself). For member accounts, this web page solely shows the account data that features the AWS organizations permissions and the variety of supply servers, functions, and waves within the particular account.
In your administration account, you’ll be able to entry and overview supply servers, functions 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 offered supply servers, functions or waves.
Import and Export from Native Disk
A complete knowledge heart stock kinds the inspiration of any profitable migration endeavor. This stock encompasses a complete listing of servers and functions managed by clients on premises. The stock is categorized into migration waves to facilitate environment friendly migration planning.
Usually, this stock is compiled utilizing discovery instruments or created manually by IT directors. Maybe you keep your knowledge heart stock in Excel spreadsheets. With Utility Migration Service, we provide seamless help for importing your stock listing from a CSV file, which follows a format just like the one utilized by Cloud Migration Manufacturing facility.
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 massive scale-migrations and ingest your stock of supply servers, functions and waves, together with their attributes corresponding to EC2 occasion sort, subnet and tags. These attributes are the parameters used to populate the EC2 launch template.
To begin utilizing the import characteristic, it’s worthwhile to determine your servers and utility stock. You are able to do this manually or utilizing discovery instruments. The subsequent factor it’s worthwhile to 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 listing onto this template. Whereas mapping your stock, you’ll be able to group associated servers into functions and waves. You too can carry out configurations, corresponding 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 (beneath Import and Export). Beneath the Import stock tab, choose Import from native disk. Choose Select file and select the native file containing your stock listing. 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, Purposes, and Waves pages on the Utility Migration Service console.
To export your stock to a neighborhood 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 beneath 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 have to have the required permissions to carry out this motion. You’ll be able to 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.
Extra Put up-launch Actions
Put up-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 extra predefined post-launch actions to run in your Amazon EC2 situations on high of the prevailing predefined post-launch actions. These extra post-launch actions give you flexibility to maximise your migration expertise.
The brand new 4 extra 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’ve gotten sufficient out there 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 listing of URLs. The characteristic verifies the connectivity to the launched goal occasion.
- Allow Amazon Inspector – The Allow Amazon Inspector characteristic lets you 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 stage. This motion makes use of the
Allow,BatchGetAccountStatus,andCreateServiceLinkedRoleAPIs.
Now Out there
The World View, Import and Export Characteristic from Native, and Extra Put up-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’ll seek advice from the Getting began with AWS Utility Migration Service to kickstart your workload migration to AWS.
—Irshad