Cloud Database Migration - AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

AWS Database Migration Service

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On 5/20/2026, AWS will discontinue support for AWS DMS Fleet Advisor. After 5/20/2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS DMS Fleet Advisor console or AWS DMS Fleet Advisor resources. For more information, see Fleet Advisor end of support

Benefits

Discover, assess, convert, and migrate your database and analytics workloads to AWS with automated migration

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Maintain high availability and minimal downtime during the migration process with Multi-AZ and ongoing data replication and monitoring

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Supports homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations from Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, and other databases

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Migrate a terabyte-sized database at a low cost, paying only for the compute resources and additional log storage used during the migration process

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Use cases

Move to managed databases

Migrate from legacy or on-premises databases to managed cloud services through a simplified migration process, removing undifferentiated database management tasks.

Remove licensing costs and accelerate business growth

Modernize to purpose-built databases to innovate and build faster for any use case at scale for one-tenth the cost.

Replicate ongoing changes

Create redundancies of business-critical databases and data stores to minimize downtime and protect against any data loss.

Improve integration with data lakes

Build data lakes and perform real-time processing on change data from your data stores.

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Documentation

Understand how AWS DMS performs homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations

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Documentation

Read the AWS DMS User Guide to get started with data migrations from your existing database

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Try AWS DMS using the AWS Free Tier

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AWS Database Migration Service

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Benefits

Discover, assess, convert, and migrate your database and analytics workloads to AWS with automated migration

Maintain high availability and minimal downtime during the migration process with Multi-AZ and ongoing data replication and monitoring

Supports homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations from Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, and other databases

Migrate a terabyte-sized database at a low cost, paying only for the compute resources and additional log storage used during the migration process

Use cases

Move to managed databases

Remove licensing costs and accelerate business growth

Replicate ongoing changes

Improve integration with data lakes

Next steps

Understand how AWS DMS performs homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations

Read the AWS DMS User Guide to get started with data migrations from your existing database

Try AWS DMS using the AWS Free Tier

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