Development Team Manager/Chief Solutions Architect at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
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2024-01-15T04:10:00Z
Jan 15, 2024
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.
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Senior Database Administrator at Overonix Technologies
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2022-10-04T11:23:04Z
Oct 4, 2022
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.
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.
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.
Digital Services & Engagement Senior Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
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2020-11-02T18:06:00Z
Nov 2, 2020
The process is now simplified because there won't be maintenance. Usually we can take a snapshot of the number I need. We can automate the backup snapshots and we can restore it very quickly. We get many benefits from the application.
AWS Database Migration Service, also known as AWS DMS, is a cloud service that facilitates the migration of relational databases, NoSQL databases, data warehouses, and other types of data stores. The product can be used to migrate users' data into the AWS Cloud or between combinations of on-premises and cloud setups. The solution allows migration between a wide variety of sources and target endpoints; the only requirement is that one of the endpoints has to be an AWS service. AWS DMS cannot...
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.
This solution is very good at mini-batch processing.
The initial setup is very straightforward.
The initial setup is simple. Not that much complex.
The database migration services allow us to do real-time synchronization of on-premise and database to plan out our releases.
We particularly like that this solution has the facility to integrate with all ETL tools.
Support is helpful.
Even if it does break down, it will automatically recover itself and resumes from where it stopped.
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.
It's scalable.
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.
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.
The solution is instantaneous. We can launch the service and reduce the end number of manpower.
The installation is easy.
The solution is stable and reliable.
Scalable and stable solution for migrating databases to AWS, with valuable features such as parallel full load and continuous data replication.
It's pretty useful when we need to migrate something big from a different type of database that AWS Data Migration Services supports.
The tools are very user-friendly.
The process is now simplified because there won't be maintenance. Usually we can take a snapshot of the number I need. We can automate the backup snapshots and we can restore it very quickly. We get many benefits from the application.
I am very impressed by the scalability of AWS Database Migration Service.
As the solution is on the cloud, we don't have to worry about the maintenance of software.
I like that I can focus on the logic and I don't have to worry about the administration stuff. AWS handles that for me.