Creating a custom migration journey - AWS Migration Hub Journeys

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Creating a custom migration journey

In this tutorial, you create a custom journey for the following migration scenario: Rehost on-premises workloads in the AWS Cloud: migration checklist.

Create the migration journey

  1. Open the Migration Hub Journeys console. For information about how to access the console, see Accessing AWS Migration Hub Journeys.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Migration journeys.

  3. Choose Create migration journey.

  4. In the Journey creation method section, choose Create custom journey.

  5. In the Journey details section, under Journey name enter custom-migration-journey.

  6. Under Migration space, choose Create migration space.

  7. In the Space name field, enter tutorial-two-space.

  8. In the Create phases section, enter Planning phase in the Phase name field.

  9. Choose Add phase, and then enter Pre-discovery in the Phase name field.

  10. Repeat the previous step to add four more phases with the following names: Discovery, Build, Test, and Cutover.

  11. Choose Create migration journey.

Add a module to each of the phases of the journey

In this procedure, you add a main module to contain the tasks that you will later add to each phase.

  1. In the navigation pane, choose Migration journeys.

  2. Choose the name of the journey custom-migration-journey.

  3. Choose the journey's Modules tab.

  4. In the Modules in the Pre-discovery phase section, choose Add module.

  5. In the Title field, enter Main module.

  6. For the Phase field, use the dropdown list to choose Pre-discovery.

  7. Choose Add module.

  8. Repeat the steps in this procedure to add a module to each of the phases of the journey.

Add tasks to the modules of the journey

  1. In the journey's Modules tab, find the Modules in the Pre-discovery phase section, and choose Main module.

  2. Choose Create task.

  3. In the Title field, enter Groom the pre-discovery backlog..

  4. For the Module field, choose Pre-discovery main module from the dropdown list.

  5. For the task description, enter Conduct the pre-discovery backlog grooming working session with department leads and application owners.

  6. Choose Create task.

  7. Repeat the steps in this procedure to add to the journey all of the tasks that are listed under Epics.