Migration

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Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about migration products, capabilities, and procedures.
Plan, design, and implement the process of migrating your workloads.

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Study migrating a stand-alone PostgreSQL database to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL using a continuous Database Migration Service job and VPC peering for connectivity.
Study migrating a MySQL database from an Amazon RDS instance for MySQL to Cloud SQL for MySQL using a one-time Database Migration Service job and an IP allowlist for connectivity.
Study Google Cloud technologies essential to the Startup Cloud Engineer role, including migration.
Study translating existing Azure knowledge to Google Cloud knowledge, while also preparing for certification.
Study Google Cloud solutions in comparison with Azure.
Study translating existing AWS knowledge to Google Cloud knowledge, while also preparing for certification.
Study Google Cloud solutions in comparison with AWS.

Migration products by use case

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Tools and information to guide your migration to Google Cloud.

Facilitate database migrations to Google Cloud with minimal downtime.
Compare AWS and Azure services to Google Cloud.
Unified platform that helps you accelerate your end-to-end cloud journey from your current on-premises or cloud environments to Google Cloud.
Migrate servers and VMs from on-premises or another cloud to Compute Engine. (Formerly Velostrata.)
Migrate VMs from on-premises or other clouds directly into containers in GKE.
A fully managed, cloud-based data storage service that provides advanced data management capabilities and highly scalable performance.
Transfer data between Cloud Storage services such as AWS S3 and Cloud Storage.
Ship large volumes of data to Google Cloud using rackable storage.
Migrate your data warehouse to BigQuery using free-to-use tools that help you with each phase of migration.
Migrate your Cloud Foundry apps to GKE.