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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
35
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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."
"The initial setup is simple. Not that much complex."
"It's scalable."
"Even if it does break down, it will automatically recover itself and resumes from where it stopped."
"For our simple requirement of migration, DMS is just a typical AWS RDS with an IPSec tunnel to Oracle. The most valuable features for us are the networking capabilities like VPCs and VPNs."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Database Migration Service is it catches all the history changes, such as inset, observe, and delete. It tracks everything."
"If your infrastructure is already on Amazon, it simply makes the most sense to use a tool officially provided by them as an additional service, rather than having to rely on a third-party solution."
"We have the ability to bring data for all tables of a database in one go, as long as the tables follow a particular naming convention."
"What I like about AWS Database Migration Service is that it's a good product that allows you to migrate terabytes of data. My team was able to migrate almost 16TB of data using AWS Database Migration Service. The solution works fine for my use case."
 

Cons

"The user-defined functions have shortcomings in AWS Data Pipeline."
"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."
"This solution can offer more tweaks where the latency can be brought down to fifteen seconds."
"The cost is a concern. We use DMS because of its simplicity, but the price could definitely be more competitive."
"The initial setup can be difficult for beginners in AWS Database Migration Service. You will need the training to complete it."
"The technical support for AWS Database Migration Service is bad. They are still figuring out how to support their product."
"Migrating from here and pushing the data from on-premise to AWS cloud is a big challenge and a few more services from AWS would be helpful. For example, we are currently using ILDB internet tools which move data from on-premise to the AWS cloud. A few more services would be really helpful for me to move the master data."
"When working with AWS GovCloud, we often did not get an answer in time because AWS seemed more focused on the commercial side."
"There could be enhancements in the product intelligently covering more scenarios to prevent crashes or failures."
"Sometimes we encounter errors, and the error messages from DMS are very ambiguous and sometimes misleading."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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 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."
"Pricing for the solution is reasonable, but could still be reduced."
"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."
"AWS Database Migration Service is very inexpensive."
"Cost is the only factor that is challenging."
"The pricing is on the higher side."
"In terms of pricing, I'd rate it an eight out of ten, considering it's a well-priced solution."
"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...
Would you recommend AWS Database Migration Service as a cloud data integration tool?
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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