Migration and Transfer Services

Question 1

What are Database Migration Services (DMS)?

Answer 1

Helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely over the internet. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database.

DMS can migrate your data to and from the most widely used commercial and open-source databases.

Migrate on-premises databases to AWS

Continuous data replication

Virtually no downtime

Question 2

What are some real world use cases of Database Migration Services (DMS)?

Answer 2

Oracle to Aurora MySQL – migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Aurora MySQL

Oracle to Oracle – Migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Oracle on EC2

RDS Oracle to Aurora MySQL – Migrate an RDS Oracle database to Aurora MySQL

Question 3

What are Server Migration Services (SMS)?

Answer 3

Allows you to migrate on-premises servers to AWS

Server saved as a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Use AMI to launch servers as EC2 instances

Question 4

What are the Snow Family of Products?

Answer 4

Allow you to transfer data from on-premises to the cloud using one these physical devices. Typically used when you have a large amount of data.

Snowcone

Snowball Edge

Snowmobile

Snowball: transfers petabytes of data and is cheaper then transferring over the internet

Question 5

What is Snowcone?

Answer 5

smallest data transfer

Question 6

What is Snowball Edge?

Answer 6

natively supports services like EC2 and Lambda

Question 7

What is Snowmobile?

Answer 7

The largest member of transport family and supports exabyte-scale data

Question 8

What is Snowball?

Answer 8

Transfers petabytes of data and is cheaper then transferring over the internet

Question 9

What is DataSync?

Answer 9

Transfers data online and can be used to replicate data cross-Region or cross-account

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