Migration Strategy
A migration strategy is one of the 7 Rs — rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, relocate, retain, retire — for moving a workload to AWS. SAP-C02 covers selecting a strategy and the AWS tooling for each.
All SAP-C02 Terms
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations is a service for centrally managing and governing multiple AWS accounts, including consolidated billing and service control policies.
Service Control Policy
A service control policy (SCP) is an AWS Organizations guardrail that sets the maximum permissions available to accounts in an organization.
AWS Control Tower
AWS Control Tower is a service that sets up and governs a secure, multi-account AWS landing zone using best-practice guardrails.
Transit Gateway
AWS Transit Gateway is a network hub that connects VPCs and on-premises networks through a central point, simplifying large-scale connectivity.
AWS PrivateLink
AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS or partner services without traversing the public internet, using interface endpoints.
IAM Identity Center
AWS IAM Identity Center (formerly AWS SSO) provides centralized workforce identity and single sign-on across multiple AWS accounts and applications.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery is the set of strategies — backup-and-restore, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active/active — for restoring workloads after failure.
RTO and RPO
RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective) are the targets for how quickly a workload must recover and how much data loss is acceptable.
Migration Strategy
A migration strategy is one of the 7 Rs — rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, relocate, retain, retire — for moving a workload to AWS.
AWS DMS
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a service that migrates and replicates databases to AWS with minimal downtime, including change data capture.
AWS DataSync
AWS DataSync is a service that automates and accelerates moving large amounts of file and object data to and from AWS.
Landing Zone
A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment baseline with identity, governance, networking, and logging preconfigured.
Well-Architected Framework
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability — for evaluating architectures.