AWS Database Blog
Accelerate your database migration journey with AI
When running database migration with AWS DMS, you may encounter opportunities to streamline your workflow: interpreting error messages, understanding configuration parameter relationships, and navigating between the console, documentation, and community forums during troubleshooting. What if you could have an AI-powered assistant that understands your migration context, diagnoses issues in real-time, and provides actionable guidance—all within your workflow? In this post, we show you have Amazon Q integration with AWS DMS can transform your database migration experience.
Data consistency with AWS DMS data resync
In this post, we deep dive into AWS Database Migration Service Data Resync, a feature that was introduced in DMS version 3.6.1 to detect and resolve data inconsistencies during database migrations, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
Understanding resource distribution and performance analysis using AWS DMS enhanced monitoring
When using AWS DMS, replication lags, task stalls, or resource bottlenecks can occur—and identifying the root cause quickly can become critical. The enhanced monitoring dashboard is a comprehensive monitoring tool that provides visibility into critical metrics for database migration tasks and replication instances. In this post, we discuss some use cases showcasing how you can use the enhanced monitoring dashboard.
Data masking and performance improvements in AWS DMS 3.5.4
We are excited to announce the availability of new features in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.5.4. This release includes two major enhancements: data masking for enhanced security and improved data validation performance. In this post, we deep dive into these two features. Refer to the release notes to see a list of all the new features available in this version.
Configure change data capture parameters on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a managed migration and replication service that helps you move your database and analytic workloads to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database. AWS DMS can migrate data to and from most widely […]




