Using AWS DMS to migrate & replicate data from an unmanaged database server to another

Vinod Kumar Nair
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6 min readMay 20, 2023

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Introduction to AWS DMS

AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) is a managed migration and replication service that helps to move your database and analytics workloads to AWS quickly, securely, and with minimum downtime with zero data loss.

It supports migration between 20-plus databases and analytics engines such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora MySQL, MySQL to Amazon Relational Database (RDS) for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

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