AWS Migration and Transfer

Question 1

Database Migration Service (DMS)

Answer 1

Helps you migrate databases to or within AWS quickly and securely

• supports homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations
• virtually no downtime
• continuous data replication

Question 2

Server Migration Service (SMS)

Answer 2

Allows you to migrate on-premises servers to AWS

Question 3

Snowball

Answer 3

• migrate data at petabyte scale
• process and analyze data locally
• optimize manufacturing data
• cheaper than internet transfer

Question 4

Snowmobile

Answer 4

• multi petabyte or exabyte scale
• data loaded to S3
• securely transported

Question 5

Snowcone

Answer 5

• smallest member of data transport devices
• offline shipping
• 8 terabytes of storage
• offline with data sync

Question 6

Snowball Edge

Answer 6

• compute and storage capabilities for edge computing with EC2 and Lambda
• petabyte scale

Question 7

DataSync

Answer 7

Allows for online data transfer from on-premises to AWS storage services like S3 or EFS

Question 8

Application Migration Service (AMS)

Answer 8

Lift-and-shift migrations

• on premises to the cloud

Question 9

Application Discovery Service

Answer 9

Automatically collects data about on-premise servers, storage, and network infrastructure, providing insights into resource utilization and interdependences for informed decision-making during migration projects