AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a managed service that facilitates fast, secure database migrations to AWS, supporting both homogeneous (e.g., Oracle to Oracle) and heterogeneous (e.g., Oracle to PostgreSQL) migrations with minimal downtime. It supports full-load and ongoing CDC (Change Data Capture) replication, often used with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) for complex migrations.
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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Benefits and Use Cases

  • Move database and analytics workloads between different database platforms quickly, securely, and with minimal downtime.
  • Provision and run classic replication instances and tasks, serverless replications, or DMS Schema Conversion migration projects, all from one job type.

Example Use Case: "Follow-the-Sun" Regional Cloud Localizations

Dynamically spin up localized AWS DMS tasks that sync specific geographical data fragments to regional cloud centers based on the time of day.

Automic Features

  • Start, cancel and monitor an AWS DMS job from a definition and optionally override parameters in the job definition.
  • Supports Credential (access key), EC2 instance profile, Assume Role, SAML federation, and OAuth authentication.
  • Polls AWS DMS until the resource reaches a genuine terminal state (for example, task stopped, instance available, or data migration LOAD_COMPLETE), with configurable polling and failure intervals.
  • Stopping a running job issues the matching AWS stop call and reports the job as TERMINATED, not FAILED.
  • Optionally route API calls through a proxy server for network environments that require it.