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AWS Data Pipeline [EOL] vs AWS Database Migration Service comparison

 

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AWS Data Pipeline [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
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No ranking in other categories
AWS Database Migration Service
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
34
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BR
Senior Director Data Architecture at Managed Markets Insight & Technology, LLC
A tool with great orchestration and development capabilities but needs to improve its user-defined functions
In the tool, parallel processing is an area that is contingent, in the sense that you have to be watchful for the cap that you have in terms of computing behind AWS Data Pipeline. You need to always watch for some reason. I am capped with 200 nodes, and if I get to use more than 200 nodes, the AWS Data Pipeline will fail. AWS doesn't state that I have almost gone beyond my limits, and it is allowing me now to go beyond the set limits if I talk to a representative and figure it out. Such aforementioned warnings are not let out by AWS, and they end up failing the nodes if I go beyond the set cap limits.
AG
Delivery Head Data Engineering at BAGIC
Streamlines data migration across platforms with cost-effective and scalable solutions
We have the continuous data integration feature, but it does not work very well in our given ecosystem because we have huge data volume, and it reads from archive log rather than the redo sequence. That is where it lacks, so we are not able to do continuous streaming data injection. The ability to handle heterogeneous migrations for our organization is adequate. I do not see a major value add, or see it as a marquee feature. It is a good tool, but we do not have that sort of uses requirement. In my 10 plus years of experience, I do not see that kind of requirement where I have to replicate it in real time. I leverage AWS CloudWatch for addressing migration issues. The major challenges come across CDC. We have created latency filter and everything, but there is no way to control it. Due to the nature of our business, the transactions increase during month end and year end. My transactions are supposed to increase, my workloads on my core system increases, but my DMS is not able to keep up with them, even if I increase it to a higher side. Improvements could be made in AWS Database Migration Service. Because of that, I am moving out of DMS now to a STRIIM solution. DMS works within AWS ecosystem, but they also have to look for third party solutions. Now Snowflake is a bigger player, or Databricks. Something that could be possible as a connector, whether paid or free, but giving as a connector to that ecosystem as well.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that orchestration and development capabilities are easier with the tool."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"We have an in-built tool provided by Amazon; it is a database migration tool that supports a smooth migration, is instantaneous, and lets us launch the service to reduce the number of manpower needed."
"The solution is instantaneous. We can launch the service and reduce the end number of manpower."
"One valuable feature of AWS Database Migration Service is change data capture (CDC)."
"From my point of view, it was the best option in this case."
"DMS's architecture is highly beneficial, allowing for scalable migrations of large datasets."
"Even if it does break down, it will automatically recover itself and resumes from where it stopped."
"Support is helpful."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
 

Cons

"It's almost semi-automatic because you must review and approve code push, which works well. Still, we had many problems getting there during the deployment process, but we got there."
"The user-defined functions have shortcomings in AWS Data Pipeline."
"The live duplication has a delay of two minutes, which can be an issue."
"Sometimes we encounter errors, and the error messages from DMS are very ambiguous and sometimes misleading."
"AWS Database Migration Service can become complex when testing. Other solutions, such as Microsoft Azure make it easy to do."
"We would like to see some improvement in the performance of large scale procedures, such as when we migrate from Oracle to csSQL."
"Support could be more expedient. Right now I am waiting on support for an extension."
"There could be enhancements in the product intelligently covering more scenarios to prevent crashes or failures."
"Support could be more expedient. Right now I am waiting on support for an extension."
"Database Migration Service could be more integrated. I think that it makes sense to add integration to these functions. For example, AWS Glue has a feature called Orchestrator to create data flows, and that's more straightforward."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the pricing between six to eight on a scale from one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price."
"The way we use it, I think it is fair as we're getting a good value for money compared to having a server or some other data pipeline."
"Pricing can be improved."
"AWS Database Migration Service is the least expensive solution, but is still expensive."
"I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."
"The pricing is per hour, though I do not have the exact figures. If you have specific questions about the service, a personal support team from Amazon is available, but this will bring in additional costs."
"The pricing is on the higher side."
"AWS Database Migration Service is very inexpensive."
"Pricing for the solution is reasonable, but could still be reduced."
"For Egypt, the product's prices are high, making it a specific problem in one region and not globally."
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What resources can you use to learn how to utilize AWS Database Migration Service?
As with all AWS products, you are given very useful documentation with AWS Database Migration Service. Before we started using this product, we went over it and we were able to learn the basics an...
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My current company started using AWS Database Migration Service upon my recommendation, and I continue telling people how good of a product it is. However, users should keep in mind a few things. ...
Is AWS Database Migration Service an affordable solution?
Compared to similar solutions, AWS Database Migration Service falls somewhere in the middle price-wise, at least from my experience. This being said, it is not a very affordable solution, especial...
 

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