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# DMS

Database migration service

[Console](https://aws.amazon.com/dms/?nc2=type_a) | [Document](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/index.html) | [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/dms/faqs/)

## Overview

* Managed service helps you migrate DB to the cloud with virutally no downtime.
* All data changes to the source database that occur during the migration are ***continuously replicated to the target***

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## Features

* automatically assesses and converts your source schemas to a new target engine.
* can replicate data from source DB to target DB in real-time
* multiple DB support: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB...

### Homogeneous (x to x)

migrate to the `same` DB engine

### Heterogeneous (x to y)

migrate to `different` DB engine

## Migration process

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## Use cases

* In case there is no other official dump and restore tool.

## Best practices

* Use SCT tool: help convert the DB Schema to a format that compatible with your target DB.

## Trivia

* DMS is free, you pay for the replication instances.


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