How to Migrate Azure VM to EC2
Maybe the first cloud service provider is not suitable for companies, Choosing a cloud service provider is often based on business needs such as cost, reliability, security, compatibility, or specific features. However, the business environment is constantly changing. Business needs and priorities may have changed, and a new or additional platform may now be a better fit.
A common issue when migrating to AWS is the need to migrate physical servers to the Amazon environment. CloudEndure is a third-party solution designed to simplify the migration of physical resources.
How does Cloud Endure work?
CloudEndure, a disaster recovery service that allows you to migrate your workloads from on-premise or any other cloud to the aws cloud, Amazon CloudEndure Migration is a free upgrade and change migration solution, automatic, highly automated. Cloud Endure does all the actions using the agent, you just need to install a lightweight agent on the source server that will be replicated without restarting the server. The agent will continuously send data to the new server
Setting up the CloudEndure environment.
Log in to the CloudEndure console and create a new migration project. Enter the Project Name, choose Project Type as Migration, and then choose Create Project.
- Create the IAM user with policy and create the IAM access keys.
- Choose AWS credentials and enter the IAM user credentials created as part of the prerequisites.
- Proceed to the Replication Settings and do the following:
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- Choose Migration Source as Other Infrastructure
- Choose Migration Target as the AWS Region
- Choose a specific instance type for your replication server and the converter server.
- Specify security and network-related configuration like subnet, security group, VPN, etc. For this tutorial, keep the default values for all the other options. Save them and proceed.
After saving the changes, install the agent on the source server. When the CloudEndure Migration agent is ready for replication, the CloudEndure Migration SaaS application launches and configures replication instances in the staging area. You can also monitor the replication progress
Configure the migration plan for the target machine with instance type, network, security group, IAM, and public IP address.
Perform several test runs before performing the actual migration to verify that your applications are running as expected. To initiate failover, select the machine you want to launch into the target environment and click Launch Target Machine, CloudEndure launches a Machine Migration instance to modify the target machine to get it up and running on AWS. Once the task is complete, you can view both instances in the EC2 console