5_Migrating Data into AWS Databases

Flashcards about AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and related tools to migrate and replicate data to and within AWS.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

A managed migration and replication service that helps move existing database and analytics workloads to and within AWS.

Endpoints (in AWS DMS)

The source and target data stores involved in a data migration process.

Homogeneous Data Migration

Data migration between equivalent database engines.

Heterogeneous Data Migration

Data migration between source and target endpoints that use different database engines.

AWS DMS Fleet Advisor

A tool used for database discovery that automatically inventories and assesses on-premises databases and server fleets, providing potential migration paths and suggestions.

AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS DMS Schema Conversion

Tools that automatically assess and convert the source database schema and most of the database code objects to a format compatible with the target database.

AWS Schema Conversion Tool

A standalone application that works in conjunction with AWS DMS to convert database schemas; needs to be downloaded to a local drive.

AWS DMS in a data lake context

Used to replicate data from a database into a data lake for analytics, connecting the replication task to Amazon S3 raw data bucket.