Category: AWS Database Migration Service

In the fast-paced digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on their data store to manage critical information, making their seamless functioning indispensable. As the technology evolves, applications become mission critical, and so do the databases that power these enterprises. This necessitates periodic upgrades to maintain optimal performance and security. Although upgrades offer enhanced capabilities, the challenge […]

Planning a migration journey with extensive on-premises database and analytics resources have many requirements such as including time to generate a migration plan and expertise in compiling inventory, designing a migration strategy, and finalizing migration targets. Transition to AWS became remarkably streamlined with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor service. AWS DMS Fleet Advisor helps you construct […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native integrations with other AWS services. AWS Database Migration […]

Many AWS customers are starting to modernize architectures and move toward open-source databases. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL makes it easier to migrate applications from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. With Babelfish, Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible supports commonly used T-SQL language and semantics, which reduces the amount of code changes related to database calls in an […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a fully managed service that helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. Every customer’s use cases are unique; you can use AWS DMS not only for a one-time data migration solution but also to replicate the data as per the requirements of your downstream applications. In […]

In scenarios such as consolidating or merging multiple departments with separate AWS accounts into a single AWS account, splitting a single account or divisions into multiple AWS accounts for better management, or duplicating an AWS account across Regions, you often need to migrate the database from one AWS account to another with minimal downtime and […]

In this post, we introduce the key functionalities, architecture, and configurations of the AWS DMS diagnostic support AMI. Then, we show you how to launch the AMI with proper networking configurations and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions using AWS CloudFormation. Last, we demonstrate an example of how network latency results in significant replication lag and how to use the AMI to diagnose the issue.

In this post, we show you how to use a secondary replica instance in an Always On availability group as the source of migrating your data from SQL Server to Amazon Redshift. Using a secondary replica reduces the utilization overhead on your busy primary replica.

In this post, we show how you can migrate from Microsoft SQL Server to a Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL cluster with minimal downtime using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Customers using Microsoft SQL Server may want to migrate to open-source databases like PostgreSQL; however, the significant effort to required migrate the application itself, including […]

A common challenge customers face as their business grows is providing the same level of service to their end-users. Most often, databases become bottlenecks as usage outgrows capacity. Caching strategies may help improve performance by offloading frequently used data to a cache like Redis. This requires additional overhead in keeping your cache up to date. […]