DMS

Introduction

  • Migrates databases to AWS and remains available during migration

  • Supports:

    • Homogeneous migrations: ex. Oracle to Oracle

    • Heterogeneous migrations: ex. Microsofr SQL Server to Aurora

  • Continuous Data Replication using CDC

  • Must create an EC2 instance to perform the replication tasks

  • Works over VPC Peering / VPN / Direct Connect

  • Supports loads: full load / full load + CDC / CDC only

Feature

  • Sources:

    • On-premise and EC2 instances databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SAP, DB2, Mongo DB.

    • Azure: Azure SQL Database

    • RDS: all including Aurora

    • S3 (csv files as input)

  • Targets:

    • On-premise and EC2 instances databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SAP

    • RDS

    • Redshift

    • DynamoDB

    • DocumentDB

    • S3

    • ElasticSearch

    • Kinesis Data Steams

  • Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)

    • Converts Database schema from one engine to another

    • OLTP: SQL Server / Oracle to MySQL / PostgreSQL / Aurora

    • OLAP: Teradata / Oracle to Redshift

  • Customing tasks

    • can filter data by column value

    • can filter columns according by prefix

    • can add prefix to table name

  • For Oracle:

    • As source: supports TDE for the source using "BinaryReader"

    • As target: supports BLOBs in tables that have a primary key, and TDE

  • For ElasticSearch:

    • As source: NOT SUPPORTED

    • As target: possible to migrate through DMS from a relational DB

    • Exception with code 429 "Too many requests,"

      • Calculate the number of queue slots required for the ES bulk request as a product of the number of indexes, shards, and replicas.

      • Adjust DMS subtask and thread parameters accordingly.

  • Can combine with Snowball Edge

    • Steps:

      • Use AWS Schema Conversion Tool to extract the data locally and move it into Snowball Edge

      • Ship Snowball edge back to AWS

      • Data is loaded into S3 bucket

      • DMS takes the S3 files and migrates data to the target data store. With CDC, updates are written to S3 bucket and then applied to the target data store

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