Migration and Transfer Services

Database Migration Service (DMS)

DMS helps you migrate databases to or within AWS.

  • Migrate on-premises databases to AWS

  • Continuous data replication

  • Supports homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations

  • Virtually no downtime

DMS in the real world

  1. Oracle to Aurora MySQL: Migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Aurora MySQL

  2. Oracle to Oracle: Migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Oracle on EC2

  3. RDS Oracle to Aurora MySQL: Migrate an RDS Oracle database to Aurora MySQL

Server Migration Service (SMS)

SMS allows you to migrate on-premises servers to AWS.

  • Migrates on-premises servers to AWS

  • Servers saved as a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

  • Use AMI to launch servers as EC2 instances

Snow Family

The Snow Family allows you to transfer large amounts of on-premises data to AWS using a physical device.

Snowcone

  • The smallest member of data transport devices

  • 8 terabytes of usable storage

  • Offline shipping

  • Online with DataSync

Snowball and Snowball Edge

  • Petabyte-scale data transport solution

  • Transfer data in and out

  • Cheaper than Internet transfer

  • Snowball Edge supports EC2 and Lambda

Snowmobile

  • Multi-petabyte or exabyte scale

  • Data loaded to S3

  • Securely transport

DataSync

DataSync allows for online data transfer from on-premises to AWS storage services like S3 or EFS.

  • Migrates data from on-premises to AWS

  • Copy data over Direct Connect or the internet

  • Copy data between AWS storage services

  • Replicate data cross-Region or cross-account

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