Category: AWS Database Migration Service

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. An important part of AWS SCT is the report that it […]

When moving from monoliths to microservices, you often need to propagate the same data from the monolith into multiple downstream data stores. These include purpose-built databases serving microservices as part of a decomposition project, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for hydrating a data lake, or as part of a long-running command query responsibility segregation […]

Amazon DocumentDB is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical JSON workloads for enterprises. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native integrations with other AWS services. In this blog series, we discuss the approach for seamless migration of live data from a […]

This is a guest post by Sahil Thakral, Lead Platform Engineer, OLX Autos and Shashank Singh, Lead Platform Engineer, OLX Autos. In 2019, OLX Autos merged with Frontier Car Group (FCG), a used auto marketplace in Germany. Until then, OLX Autos had been exclusively using AWS to host its cloud infrastructure. However, FCG was running […]

In this post, we deep dive into AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Time Travel, a feature that was introduced with DMS version 3.4.6 to make troubleshooting simple and secure. With Time Travel, you can now troubleshoot data discrepancies between source and target by retrieving and logging the SQL statements. We’ll discuss the steps to […]

Many companies need to maintain an audit trail to track updates to their data. For compliance and other reasons, they’re required to preserve a history of all updates and deletes made to any given record in any given database table. For example, a foreign exchange transaction between two global banks includes a set of payment […]

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 […]