Concepts and definitions

This section describes key concepts and defines terminology specific to this solution:

application

A group of resources that make up a single business service or application.

wave

A group of applications that will be migrated in the same event. This could be based on affinity between one another, or any other reason.

server

Source server to be migrated.

database

Source database to be migrated.

pipeline

A chain of tasks used to automate migration patterns containing multiple scripts and manual activities. This helps you to automate application migrations and transformations.

Note

For a general reference of AWS terms, refer to the AWS Glossary.