Mainframe Modernization Patterns and Best Practices

 We have updated this course on Jan 24,2023 to correct a problem that was impacting course completion. If you are enrolled in the course and have not completed it, your progress may be impacted. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause

Course description

There are many ways to modernize mainframe workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This course helps you identify and apply patterns of the AWS Mainframe Modernization, and also provides best practices for successful mainframe modernization project implementation.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Differentiate between the four short-term migration and modernization patterns and the two most popular approaches.
• Explain hardware emulator rehosting, mainframe compatible replatforming, mainframe automated refactoring, and modern middleware replatforming.
• Explain mainframe data analytics, new channels and functions, development and testing, and backup and archival storage augmentation patterns.
• List the nine best practices for successful project implementation.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Customers
• Partners
• Amazonians

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Fundamental level understanding of mainframes
• Fundamental level understanding of AWS Cloud

Course outline

• Introduction
• Mainframe Modernization Patterns
• Short-Term Mainframe Migration and Modernization Patterns
• Short-Term Migration and Modernization Deeper Dive
• Mainframe Augmentation Patterns Deeper Dive
• Best Practices
• Summary

Notice to add to CD:  We have updated this course on Jan 24,2023 to correct a problem that was impacting course completion. If you are enrolled in the course and have not completed it, your progress may be impacted. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause