Which actions for migration should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

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A company needs to migrate two individual applications from on premises to AWS:• The first application is a legacy custom application that is hosted on a physical Windows server.The application source code is no longer available.The application has little documentation, has hardcoded operating system configuration settings, and is used by an external third party.• The second application is an IBM Db2 database that is hosted on a single Linux VM that uses network-attached storage (NAS) to store the database data.The company uses this database internally for employee records.The applications are hosted in a data center that the company plans to decommission in 90 days.Where possible, the company must use managed AWS services.

Which actions for migration should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

(Choose two.)

Migrate the Windows server with the legacy application to Amazon EC2 by using AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration).

Migrate the Linux VM with the IBM Db2 database service to an Amazon EC2 instance by using AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration).

Migrate the Windows server with the legacy application to Amazon EC2 by using AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS).

Migrate the IBM Db2 database data to Amazon RDS for MySQL by using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool replication agent.

Migrate the IBM Db2 database data to Amazon RDS for MySQL by using AWS DataSync and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool data extraction agent.

Explanations:

AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration) can be used to migrate the legacy Windows application to EC2, as it supports lift-and-shift migrations for physical servers.

AWS Application Migration Service is not suited for migrating IBM Db2 to EC2 directly. The best approach would be to use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for database migrations.

AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) is typically used for migrating virtual machines, not physical servers. CloudEndure Migration is a better fit for the Windows legacy application.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool can be used to migrate the IBM Db2 database to a fully managed Amazon RDS solution.

AWS DataSync is used for transferring large amounts of data, not for migrating databases. The right tool for the Db2 database migration is AWS DMS with the Schema Conversion Tool.

2025-10-19

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  1. Carol
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    If I’m correct, the answer is:
    Migrate the Windows server with the legacy application to Amazon EC2 by using AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration).

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