Database Migration with AWS DMS Services

Among the many services provided by AWS (Amazon Web Service) is database migration (DMS or Database Migration Service) from on-premises servers to the cloud, data warehouses, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and between one cloud provider to another. The only condition for availing of AWS DMS services is that one of the sources or the target databases should be operating on the cloud as AWS DMS is a cloud-based platform. There are three types of database migration offered by AWS DMS services. · Full-load database migration: In this instance, both the source and the target databases are shut down and all the data at the source is migrated to the target database in one go. · On-going database migration: Here, the source and the target databases are kept in sync and once the full-load data migration is completed, ongoing changes and incremental data are migrated at pre-set intervals. · ...