Category: AWS Database Migration Service

Customers running their business-critical workloads on SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE) databases can modernize them by migrating to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and be able to keep Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as their preferred database programming language and Tabular Data Stream (TDS) as their communication protocol, which accelerates the migration and […]

We are excited to announce the availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.4.7. This version provides improvements covering security, performance, and connectivity that were requested by many of our customers. In this post, we highlight a few key features. For the entire list of improvements, refer to AWS DMS release […]

With AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), you can migrate data between SQL, NoSQL, and text-based targets. With Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you can store and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps. In this post, we demonstrate how to improve […]

AEVI took the journey to migrate to AWS. In their own words, “AEVI provides merchant-facing businesses—banks, acquirers, PSPs, ISOs, ISVs, and others—with a platform that enables merchants to run their business smarter by giving them easy access to any payment technology and business solution for the best in-store customer experience. AEVI’s Platform for Smart Merchant […]

Migrating your database from IBM Db2 LUW to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, or Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition is a complex, multistage process, which usually includes assessment, database schema conversion, data migration, functional testing, performance tuning, and many other steps spanning across the stages. You can use AWS […]

We are in the midst of digital transformation, and cloud adoption plays a big role in the journey to digital transformation. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a cloud service that makes it easy to migrate relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and other types of data stores. You can use AWS DMS to […]

Database migration is a multi-step process comprised of assess, mobilize and modernize phases with different tools and technologies involved. You can use tools such as AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to accelerate each of these phases. In this post, we demonstrate how to use the AWS SCT […]

Database migration is a sequence of steps from assessment through cutover. One of the key challenges that a migration engineer or an application team may face is validating the migrated database objects like tables, indexes, constraints, procedures, and functions. It is a time-consuming manual task to validate database objects during heterogeneous migration. You have to […]

Organizations often choose from commonly used migration strategies for their on-premises to cloud migration. The choice depends on various factors, including target state goals and business outcomes (for more information, see Your cloud transformation journey). In this post, we discuss a re-platforming strategy where you consolidate data from multiple on-premises SQL Server database servers to […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a managed service that you can use to migrate data from various source data engines to supported targets. When migrating data from an Oracle source to PostgreSQL-compatible target, you often encounter special data type transformation scenarios that require using the rich set of transformation rules AWS DMS provides. […]