In this video we walk through the steps to migrate your on-premises physical or virtual server to AWS. I found the simplest way to do that was by using AWS' Application Migration Services. With AMS you can upload the server and test it while your production server is running on-premises. After testing you can then cutover to the AWS server and shutdown the on-premises server.

Troubleshooting:
You'll notice after I start the migration client a staging error pops up on the AWS console. Waiting a few minutes usually resolves this or rebooting the source server.
If you get a certificate error while running the migration client my fix was to login to the AWS console and run the migration from the source server. If you're not able to do that you can use this fix.
https://www.logicata.com/blog/ssl-cer...
If you are migrating a domain joined server I would suggest you read this first.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architec...

Resources:
https://aws.amazon.com/free/migration/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mgn/lates...

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