DMS

Database migration service

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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

Evaluate the use of DMS

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

Migration process

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.