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AWS Database Migration Service

AWS Database Migration Service

- [Instructor] Chances are if you're interested in Cloud data storage, you're not starting from scratch. You've already got a significant amount of data on-premises in your local data center or co-location and you're wondering how to get it to the Cloud. Maybe you've been running a relational database or two or three for years, and you're ready to let AWS take over the operational details by migrating to RDS. Perhaps you've been running MySQL and you're interested in the performance enhancements promised by Aurora or maybe you have some new architectural goals and just want to switch database engines. How do you get from here to there? Well, you have a number of do it yourself options. You can use native tools such as Oracle's data pump but often these tools are geared toward homogenous transfers, not for migrating to another platform. You could use your database's export tools to export data and schemas to SQL scripts and…

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