Category: AWS Database Migration Service

Jeff Levine is a solutions architect for Amazon Web Services. The AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) supports Amazon S3 as a migration target. The services enable you to extract information from any database supported by DMS and write it to Amazon S3 in a format that can be used by almost any application. You can extract the entire […]

Database administrators and developers rely on relational databases to store data for applications. As Forbes noted in 2016, the development of open source offerings for database management systems like PostgreSQL is causing a growing number of enterprises to migrate to lower-cost solutions for their data storage. The move to the cloud often provides an excellent […]

Shree Kenghe is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services. This blog post gives you a quick overview of how you can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to help you migrate your existing Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully […]

Hemant Borole is a big data consultant at Amazon Web Services. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS easily and securely. AWS DMS supports homogenous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora. For customers who use […]

We are pleased to announce the recent release of version 1.0.602 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). The new version includes a new key capability—data migration agents that extract data from Oracle, MS SQL Server, Teradata, IBM Netezza, Greenplum and HPE Vertica data warehouses, prepare, optimize and upload it to Amazon Redshift. The […]

Ballu Singh and Pubali Sen are solutions architects at Amazon Web Services. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS easily and securely. The AWS Database Migration Service can migrate your data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases. The service supports homogenous migrations such as Oracle to […]

We’ve recently added a new feature in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)—the ability to receive DMS events notifications, such as email messages, text messages, or calls to HTTP endpoints, through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). You now can subscribe and receive notifications for two types of events—events related to DMS instances and events […]

Ed Murray is a manager at Amazon Web Services. When faced with the prospect of scaling your relational workload, you have generally had two options available: scale up or scale out. Scaling up is easy—just buy a bigger database host. Scaling out is more difficult. It requires you to shard your database into several physically […]

Ed Murray is a manager at Amazon Web Services. This blog post gives you a quick overview of how you can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to facilitate and simplify migrating your commercial database to Amazon Aurora. In this case, we focus on migrating from […]

We are pleased to announce the recent release of version 1.0.502 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). Two key capabilities included with this release are the use of Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility as a target and integration with AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility as a target […]