AWS Database Blog

Sanketh Balakrishna

Author: Sanketh Balakrishna

How to use segmentation to improve performance for large MongoDB and Amazon DocumentDB migrations in AWS DMS

When you’re migrating from a MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) database using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) in full load mode, a primary consideration is the ability to performantly migrate data. By default, when you provision a replication instance in AWS DMS, it uses a single threaded process to migrate data. A […]

Moving a replication task to a different replication instance in AWS DMS

We’re excited to announce a new feature of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) that allows you to move a replication task from one replication instance to another. With this feature, you can stop a running migration, move the task to an instance with a newer AWS DMS version or different instance type, and resume […]