Plan and run a cloud migration: assess applications, apply the 7 Rs migration strategies, design a landing zone, move workloads with minimal disruption and modernize them after the move.
The Cloud Migration & Modernization course in Doha, Qatar guides IT teams through planning and delivering a move to the cloud. Learners study discovery and assessment, application portfolio analysis and the 7 Rs of migration: retire, retain, rehost, relocate, replatform, repurchase and refactor. The course draws on the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure to explain landing zones, governance foundations and migration waves, and it shows how modernization with containers, managed databases and serverless delivers value after the initial move.
Participants work through a migration case study from start to finish. They build an application inventory, assign a migration strategy to each workload, sketch a landing zone with account or subscription structure, networking and identity, and draft a wave plan with cutover and rollback steps. Tools such as AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service and Azure Migrate are demonstrated. The course is also offered as an in-house program built around an organization's actual application portfolio.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Run discovery and assessment to build an application and dependency inventory
Apply the 7 Rs to choose a migration strategy for each workload
Design a landing zone covering account structure, identity, networking and guardrails
Plan migration waves, cutover windows, testing and rollback procedures
Use migration tools such as Azure Migrate, AWS Application Migration Service and AWS DMS
Identify modernization opportunities using containers, managed services and serverless
This course is for professionals who plan, lead or carry out the migration of applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
Cloud architects and infrastructure architects
IT project and program managers leading migrations
System administrators and database administrators
Application owners and development team leads
IT managers responsible for data center exit plans
Drivers for migration and common pitfalls
AWS and Microsoft Cloud Adoption Frameworks
Building a business case and total cost of ownership
Stakeholders, skills readiness and change management
Application portfolio and dependency mapping
Discovery tooling with Azure Migrate and AWS Migration Hub
Right-sizing and performance baselines
Assessing licensing, compliance and data residency constraints
Retire, retain and relocate decisions
Rehost (lift and shift) and replatform (lift and reshape)
Repurchase to SaaS and refactor to cloud-native
Decision criteria and strategy mapping exercise
Account and subscription structure, management groups and organizations
Identity, networking and hub-and-spoke connectivity
Guardrails, policies, logging and security baselines
AWS Control Tower and Azure landing zone accelerators
Wave planning, cutover runbooks and rollback plans
Server migration with AWS Application Migration Service
Database migration with AWS DMS and Azure Database Migration Service
Post-migration testing, validation and hypercare
Containerizing applications with Docker and Kubernetes
Moving to managed databases and serverless functions
Cost optimization and FinOps after migration
Continuous improvement and operating model changes
With hyperscale cloud regions now operating in Qatar, many organizations in Doha are reviewing their data centers and legacy applications for migration. Government bodies, banks, energy companies and healthcare providers must move carefully, respecting data residency, security and service continuity. Professionals who can assess workloads, design landing zones and run controlled migrations help these organizations modernize their technology in support of Qatar National Vision 2030 and the country's digital government ambitions.
Join a scheduled class at our training center in Doha or attend live online. For organizations, the course can run as an in-house program at your premises or online, tailored to your sector, examples and schedule.
The Cloud Migration & Modernization course in Doha teaches how to assess, plan and execute a cloud migration. It covers the 7 Rs, landing zones, migration tooling, wave planning and modernization with containers and managed services, using a full case study.
It suits cloud and infrastructure architects, IT project managers, system and database administrators, application owners and IT managers who are planning or delivering a move to AWS, Azure or another cloud.
The original 6 Rs were rehost, replatform, repurchase, refactor, retire and retain. AWS later added relocate, which covers moving workloads such as VMware environments to the cloud without changing them. The course covers all seven.
Yes. Leaders Training Center can deliver it at your premises or online, tailored to your organization's sector, application portfolio, examples and schedule. Contact us to plan it.
Tell us a little about yourself and an advisor will contact you about batch timings, fees and eligibility. No obligation.
Sat–Thu: 09:00–22:00Fri: 08:00–22:00
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