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Migration and Transfer

A lot of companies are migrating to the cloud, and they need inexpensive, fast, and secure ways to move their on-premises data to AWS.

Database Migration Service

  • 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
  • Use cases:
    • Oracle to Aurora MySQL: Migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Aurora MySQL.
    • Oracle to Oracle: Migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Oracle on EC2.
    • RDS Oracle to Aurora MySQL: Migrate an RDS Oracle database to Aurora MySQL.

Server Migration Service

  • SMS allows you to migrate on-premises servers to AWS. (You can actually migrate a group of servers.)
  • Migrates on-premises servers to AWS
  • Server saved as a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • Use AMI to launch servers as EC2 instances

Amazon Snow Family

The Snow Family allows you to transfer large amounts of on-premises data to AWS using a physical device.(No transfer over the internet and it's more cost effective.)

  • Snowscone

    • Smallest member of data transport devices
    • 8 terabytes of usable storage
    • Offline shipping
    • Online 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 transported

Amazon DataSync

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