Database Migration with DMS AWS

The Database Migration Service of Amazon Web Service - DMS AWS – is a platform that runs on the cloud. It facilitates seamless migration between on-premises systems and the cloud, NoSQL databases, relational databases, data warehouses, and one cloud provider to another. The only pre-condition for DMS AWS to function optimally is that any one of the sources or the target database should be based in the cloud.


The Benefits of DMS AWS for Database Migration

The main benefit of using the DMS AWS is that it is very user-friendly and compatible with the most commonly-used databases. It also enables the consolidation of several databases into one petabyte-sized data warehouse through data streaming to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or Amazon Redshift. Moreover, continuous data replication is possible with the DMS AWS.

Once DMS AWS is installed and configured, migration can be immediately started as it offers comprehensive infrastructure support, automatically deploying, managing, and tracking the progress. Most importantly, all the while the source database remains fully functional. This is a big help for large data-driven organizations as they can take up the migration activity without any downtime and upsetting their operating schedules.

Being a cloud-based platform, DMS AWS provides users unlimited storage capacities for migrating databases. The precise volume of storage required can be downloaded in seconds and payment is only for the quantum of resources used. This leads to substantial savings in costs as otherwise traditional databases charge flat fees for storage regardless of what is used. 

Finally, and this is critical, all services and support systems like the functioning of hardware and software, error reporting, and software patching necessary for migration are automatically handled by DMS AWS. 

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