In order to complete this workshop, you will need an AWS account with access to create AWS IAM roles, EC2 instances, EBS volumes, AWS Storage Gateways and CloudFormation stacks in the Ireland (eu-west-1), London (eu-west-2), and Frankfurt (eu-central-1) regions.
Resources consumed as part of this workshop will have a cost and it is recommended that you follow the cleanup instructions once you have completed the workshop to remove all deployed resources and limit ongoing costs to your AWS account.
- Browser - We recommend that you use the latest version of Firefox or Chrome for this workshop.
- RDP Client - You will need an rdp client to access EC2 instances
- AWS CLI – You will need the aws cli installed on your client to access S3 objects
- Key Pair – You will need a valid EC2 Key Pair in the following regions:- Ireland (eu-west-1), Frankfurt (eu-central-1) and London (eu-west-1). For more information on generating and downloading an EC2 Key Pair please visit creating a key pair using amazon EC2
This scenario is broken into 4 workshop modules:
- Module 1 - Deploy windows instance with sample data in Ireland (eu-west-1)
- Module 2 - Migrate data to an AWS Storage Gateway volume
- Module 3 - Cutover data volume to Amazon EBS in Frankfurt (eu-central-1)
- Module 4 - Cutover data volume to a remote location London (eu-west-2)
This sample code is made available under the MIT-0 license. See the LICENSE file.