AWS Migration Hub FAQs

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AWS Migration Hub provides access to the tools you need to collect and inventory your existing IT assets based on actual usage, analyze application components and infrastructure dependencies, and group resources into applications. You can generate migration strategy and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance recommendations for business case and migration planning, track the progress of application migrations to AWS, and modernize applications already running on AWS. "},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#general","name":"General","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"General","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"What is migration orchestration?","id":"product-faqs#what-is-migration-orchestration","customSortOrder":"1","content":"

Migration orchestration is a process automation mechanism that uses templates, synchronizes multiple tasks into a workflow, and manages dependencies to achieve the desired goal of a migration project."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#orchestrator","name":"Orchestrator","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Orchestrator","metadata":{}},{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"What is application transformation?","id":"product-faqs#what-is-application-transformation","customSortOrder":"1","content":"

Application transformation is the process of refactoring, rearchitecting, and rewriting applications to maximize the availability, scalability, business agility, and cost optimization benefits of running in the cloud."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#incremental-app-refactor","name":"Incremental app refactor","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Incremental app refactor","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":" What is Strategy Recommendations?","id":"product-faqs#what-is-strategy-recommendations","customSortOrder":"1","content":"

AWS Migration Hub’s Strategy Recommendations helps you easily build a migration and modernization strategy for your applications running on premises or in AWS. Strategy Recommendations provides guidance on the strategy and tools that help you migrate and modernize at scale."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#strategy-recommendations","name":"Strategy Recommendations","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Strategy Recommendations","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":" What is the EC2 instance recommendations feature?","id":"product-faqs#what-is-the-ec2-instance-recommendations-feature","customSortOrder":"1","content":"

EC2 instance recommendations is a feature of AWS Migration Hub that analyzes the data collected from each on-premises server, including server specification, CPU, and memory utilization, to recommend the least expensive EC2 instance required to run the on-premises workload. You can also fine-tune recommendations by specifying preferences for AWS purchasing option, AWS Region, EC2 instance type exclusions, and CPU/RAM utilization metric (average, peak, or percentile)."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#generating-ec2-instance-recommendations","name":"Generating EC2 instance recommendations","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Generating EC2 instance recommendations","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"How does the AWS Migration Hub import feature work?","id":"product-faqs#how-does-the-aws-migration-hub-import-feature-work","customSortOrder":"1","content":"

You can access the AWS Migration Hub import feature either from the Migration Hub console or by invoking the Application Discovery Service APIs . The imported data is stored in the Application Discovery Service data repository in encrypted format."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#importing-servers-and-applications","name":"Importing servers and applications","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Importing servers and applications","metadata":{}},{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"What is AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator?","id":"product-faqs#what-is-aws-migration-hub-orchestrator","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator is designed to automate and simplify the migration of applications to AWS. Orchestrator helps you reduce migration costs and time by removing many of the manual tasks involved in migrating large-scale enterprise applications, managing dependencies between different tools, and providing visibility into migration progress in one place. Use predefined and customizable workflow templates in Orchestrator that offer a prescribed set of migration tasks, migration tools, and automation opportunities to orchestrate complex workflows and interdependent tasks, simplifying the process of migrating to AWS. "},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#orchestrator","name":"Orchestrator","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Orchestrator","metadata":{}},{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"How do I use AWS Migration Hub when migrating applications","id":"product-faqs#how-do-i-use-aws-migration-hub-when-migrating-applications","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

After you’ve created one or more application groupings from servers discovered using AWS discovery tools or by starting to migrate using an integrated migration tool, you can start or continue to migrate the server or database outside Migration Hub. Return to Migration Hub to view the migration status of each resource in the application.  \n

To do this, visit that application’s page in the Migration Hub console. There, you will see a diagram with all the resources that make up the application as well as a table with more migration status details. For each resource, the general and detailed status is shown as both a diagram and a table. For instance, for a server being migrated by AWS Server Migration Service, its status may be reported as “In progress / replication starting,” “In progress / replication complete,” or “Competed / AMI created.”  \n

When the migration completes, Migration Hub also shows details about the resources that have been created by the migration. For servers migrated by AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Server Migration Service, and ATADATA, Migration Hub provides links to the AMIs created or running EC2 instances (depending on the tool). For databases migrated by AWS Database Migration Service, Migration Hub provides the Target Endpoint ID, which can be used as a search filter on the Database Migration Service console."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#tracking-migration-status","name":"Tracking migration status","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Tracking migration status","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":" Why should I use AWS Migration Hub?","id":"product-faqs#why-should-i-use-aws-migration-hub","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

AWS Migration Hub is the one destination for cloud migration and modernization, giving you the tools you need to accelerate and simplify your journey with AWS. If you’re making the case for cloud within your organization; planning, executing, and tracking a portfolio of applications migrating to AWS; or modernizing applications currently running on AWS, Migration Hub can help with your cloud transformation journey. "},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#general","name":"General","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"General","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"What is Refactor Spaces?","id":"product-faqs#what-is-refactor-spaces","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

Refactor Spaces helps you accelerate application refactoring to take full advantage of computing in AWS and simplifies app transformation by making it easy to manage the refactor process while operating in production. By using Refactor Spaces, you focus on the refactor of your applications, not the creation and management of the underlying infrastructure that makes refactoring possible. Refactor Spaces helps reduce the business risk of evolving applications into microservices or extending legacy applications that can’t be modified with new features written in microservices."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#incremental-app-refactor","name":"Incremental app refactor","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Incremental app refactor","metadata":{}},{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"Why should I use Strategy Recommendations?","id":"product-faqs#why-should-i-use-strategy-recommendations","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

Strategy Recommendations helps you identify a tailored migration and modernization strategy at scale and provides the tools and services to help you run the strategy. It also helps you identify the incompatibilities (anti-patterns) in the source code that need to be resolved to implement these recommendations."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#strategy-recommendations","name":"Strategy Recommendations","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Strategy Recommendations","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"Do I need to install the AWS Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector or Discovery Agent to use the EC2 instance recommendations feature?","id":"product-faqs#do-i-need-to-install-the-aws-application-discovery-service-discovery-connector-or-discovery-agent-to-use-the-ec2-instance-recommendations-feature","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

No. To use the EC2 instance recommendations feature, you need to ensure that on-premises server details are available in AWS Migration Hub. You can import existing server inventory information from a source such as a content management database (CMDB), or use the AWS Application Discovery Service to collect data directly from your environment."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#generating-ec2-instance-recommendations","name":"Generating EC2 instance recommendations","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Generating EC2 instance recommendations","metadata":{}},{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":" What kind of data can I import using the import template?","id":"product-faqs#what-kind-of-data-can-i-import-using-the-import-template","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

Migration Hub import allows you to import server details, including server specifications, utilization, tags and applications that are associated with your servers. You can import data from any source as long as the data is populated using the Migration Hub CSV import template ."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#importing-servers-and-applications","name":"Importing servers and applications","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Importing servers and applications","metadata":{}},{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":" How do I view my IT portfolio in AWS Migration Hub?","id":"product-faqs#how-do-i-view-my-it-portfolio-in-aws-migration-hub","customSortOrder":"2","content":"

To view your IT assets in AWS Migration Hub, first you perform discovery using an AWS discovery tool or by migrating with an integrated migration tool. Then you can explore your environment from within Migration Hub. You can learn more about any resource found by clicking on the server ID shown on the Servers page of the Migration Hub console. You then see the server details page. If you used an AWS discovery tool to discover your servers, you will see collected data, including technical specifications and average utilization."},"metadata":{"tags":[{"id":"GLOBAL#product#migration-hub","name":"AWS Migration Hub","namespaceId":"GLOBAL#product","description":"AWS Migration Hub","metadata":{}},{"id":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs#discovering-servers-and-grouping-applications","name":"Discovering servers and grouping applications","namespaceId":"product-faqs#migration-hub-faqs","description":"Discovering servers and grouping applications","metadata":{}}]}},{"fields":{"topic":"What are the benefits of using AWS Migration Orchestrator?","id":"product-faqs#what-are-the-benefits-of-using-aws-migration-orchestrator","customSortOrder":"3","content":"

Orchestrator helps you accelerate migrations, simplify the migration process, and adapt the migration tools and process for your use cases. \n