MIGRATION OF RHEL 6 SERVER ON-PREM to AWS CLOUD

Hi,

I would strongly recommend to read this post to understand the recommended method for doing such migrations: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/how-migrate-on-premises-workloads-aws-application-migration-service/

As a general recommendation, it is always better to separate concerns:

1. migrate from on-prem to AWS
2. upgrade migrated systems to later version

It is better to upgrade after migration because when on cloud, it will be much simpler and re-risked to do the migration: you can snapshot the instance in its initial version and restore it as a new instance on which you can repeat the migration process as many times as needed to make it successful and matching your desired setup.

Best,

Didier

Check out the following two resources:

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/upgrading_from_rhel_6_to_rhel_8/index
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/how-migrate-on-premises-workloads-aws-application-migration-service/

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