Working with application components in Strategy Recommendations

This section describes how to use Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations in the Migration Hub console to view and configure migration and modernization strategy recommendations.

Viewing application component recommendations

This section describes how to use Strategy Recommendations in the Migration Hub console to view migration strategy recommendations for application components.

To view recommendations details for application components

1. Using the AWS account that you created in Setting up Strategy Recommendations, sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Migration Hub console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub/.

2. In the Migration Hub console navigation pane, choose Strategy and then choose Recommendations.

3. On the Recommendations page, choose the Application components tab.

   1. Under Application components summary, is an overview of the various types of application components that you are running in your server portfolio.

   2. Under Application components, you view component name, component type, and migration "R" strategy recommendations. You can also view the migration destination, and the migration and modernization tools to use for various application components that are running in your server portfolio. For information about the "R" strategy, see Migration terms - 7 Rs in the AWS Prescriptive Guidance glossary.

4. To view the details for an application component, select an application component and then choose View details.

5. On the application component details page (the page with the component's name as the heading) under Recommendation summary, you can view Recommendations for the application component. You can also view identified Anti-patterns. Anti-patterns are a list of known issues found in your portfolio that are categorized by severity.

6. Choose the Strategy options tab to view the migration recommendation for the application component. You can override the recommended strategy by selecting a different strategy and then choosing Set preferred.

7. Depending on which type of application component you are viewing, there is a Source configuration or a Database configuration tab. For information about Source configuration, see Configure source code analysis for an application component. For information about Database configuration, see Configure database analysis for an application component.

Configure source code analysis for an application component

This section describes how to use Strategy Recommendations in the Migration Hub console to configure source code analysis for an application component.

To configure source code analysis for an application component

1. In the Migration Hub console navigation pane, choose Strategy and then choose Recommendations.

2. On the Recommendations page, choose the Application components tab.

3. From the list of components under Application components, select an application component with a component type of java, dotnetframework, or IIS, and then choose View details.

4. On the application component details page (the page with the component's name as the heading), choose the Source code configuration tab.

5. Under Source code configuration details, choose Analyze source code.

6. On the Analyze source code page, provide the repository name, branch name, and project name (if applicable) that stores the source code for the application component. Select the type of GitHub source code version control that you want to use, and then choose Analyze.

   After the analysis is complete, you can view the updated recommendations on the application component details page.

For more information about source code analysis, see Strategy Recommendations source code analysis.

Configure database analysis for an application component

This section describes how to use Strategy Recommendations in the Migration Hub console to configure database analysis for an application component.

To configure database analysis for an application component

1. In the Migration Hub console navigation pane, choose Strategy and then choose Recommendations.

2. On the Recommendations page, choose the Application components tab.

3. From the list of components under Application components, select an application component with component type SQLServer and then choose View details.

4. On the application component details page (the page with the component's name as the heading), choose the Database configuration tab.

5. Under Database configuration details, choose Analyze database details.

6. Choose a secret name from the dropdown menu that you created in AWS Secrets Manager to use for database credentials, and then choose Analyze.

   After the analysis is complete, you can view the updated recommendations on the application component details page.

For more information about database analysis and setting up a secret name, see Strategy Recommendations database analysis.