Category: AWS Database Migration Service

With the evolution of microservice-based architectures, organizations are increasingly adopting purpose-built databases. Occasionally, businesses need guidance on which cloud service and solutions are best for them, as well as a plan for helping with the migration. When performing heterogeneous database migrations, you might encounter problems with attribute patterns on NoSQL compared to traditional relational database […]

Over the past 15 years, cloud-managed databases have evolved to allow you to take advantage of the cloud’s agility, scalability, and flexibility in architecture. Open source databases have accelerated this transformation as an essential part of a cost-effective, modern data strategy. Amazon’s journey with managed open source databases started in 2009 with the launch of […]

When you’re considering migrating from on premises to the AWS Cloud, the spotlight is firmly on database transitions. After you migrate the schemas and business logic, data migration strategies are determined by factors such as available downtime, database size, and data complexity. Homogeneous migrations, like those within Oracle, often rely on tools such as Oracle […]

In Part 1 of this series, we addressed failures related to the source, network, task, and replication instance when migrating from Oracle to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). In this post, we discuss failure scenarios pertaining to validation and target database failure, and share mitigation […]

In this post, we show how you can encrypt an Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition database from an existing unencrypted cluster using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) with minimal downtime. Amazon Aurora encrypted DB clusters provide an additional layer of data protection by securing your data from unauthorized access to the underlying storage. You can […]

We are excited to announce the availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.5.1. This version provides improvements covering data validation, support for new endpoints, and endpoint settings that were requested by many of our customers. In this post, we highlight a few key features. For the entire list of improvements, […]

When migrating your database to the cloud, you should prepare a failback plan (or recovery plan) if the migration fails. To provide failback functionality, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) supports reverse replication, which you can use as a minimal downtime failback strategy while migrating from Oracle on premises to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon […]

Businesses need near realtime access to the latest data and metadata available from many silos to perform analytics. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML) and application development. AWS Glue Data Catalog is a centralized […]

Migrating self-managed Oracle databases running on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is a common migration path for customers looking to adopt a managed database solution from AWS. This managed service appeals to customers who are looking to reduce the cost and overhead of […]

In this post, we present a solution to identify PII data using Amazon Macie, mask it using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), and migrate it from an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle production source database to an RDS for Oracle development target database, before releasing the environment to users. This way, you can save time and make sure that sensitive data is protected.