A company is migrating a critical application to AWS. The application consists of 50 VMs running on VMware. The business requires that the migration be completed with near-zero downtime. The IP addresses of the servers must change during the migration. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this migration?

Answer options:

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

AWS DataSync

VMware Cloud on AWS

How to approach this question

Identify the primary AWS service for lift-and-shift server migrations.

Full Answer

B.AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)✓ Correct

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) is the primary migration service recommended for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. It uses continuous block-level replication to keep the source and target in sync, enabling near-zero downtime cutovers.

Common mistakes

Choosing the deprecated Server Migration Service (SMS).

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