Migration and Transfer Services

AWS Overview Links

• DMS

• SMS

• Snow Family

• Snowcone

• Snowball

• Snowmobile

• DataSync

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