AWS Server Migration Service [EOL] Reviews

Name: AWS Server Migration Service [EOL]
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

4.6 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is AWS Server Migration Service [EOL]?

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations.

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Featured reviews

Anan Ff

Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The documentation and videos could be improved, especially in the area of migration. Live videos would be helpful. There are very limited videos available. Moreover, the initial setup is another area of improvement. It was really difficult for us to setup. There were some difficulties with firewalls on our side.

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Reviewer01388

Service Delivery Manager at Orange

There were some hiccups during the database migration in terms of schema migrations, in particular, there were some technical limitations, though I'm not able to fully recall. Apart from that, AWS Server Migration Service was okay. Because of the technical limitations, we had to change our migration strategy and had to do some convergence before we can do the migrations. We had to look into work-arounds, and that resulted into delays, but for 90% of the databases, we were able to do the migrations using the native methods. If the database schema conversion could be made more seamless for AWS Server Migration Service, it would help. There were also some elements that were not built-in for database migration, so if they can widen the scope of those features, that could make this solution better.

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Ashish Diwan

Senior Web Developer at freelancer

Some of the functionalities are increasing day by day. Some points are yet to be explored according to the requirements. While working with others, I will get some insights and create more challenges to improve. It will be helpful for me to enhance my skills in the AWS server mode because different challenges make a person perfect. AWS is a very good server with flexibility and 99% uptime. Most applications and e-commerce are also using AWS servers. We always advise using the AWS server because it is a very good server with 99% uptime. We can start with the initial level at the initial price. We can upgrade the AWS server. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Valuable Features

"The solution's setup phase was straightforward."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The tool is automatic and makes migration easy."

Room for Improvement

"There is no monitoring support available in the solution."
"The product's cloud security could be improved. It also needs to improve its stability."
"The documentation and videos could be improved, especially in the area of migration. Live videos would be helpful. There are very limited videos available."