Amazon Migration & Transfer

Question 1

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Answer 1

o Allows you to migrate on-prem DB’s
to the cloud and also use DMS to
migrate DB’s that are inside AWS clouds
to other regions or things like redshift

Question 2

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)

Answer 2

o Does the same as DMS but instead of
targeting DB’s it targets VMware virtual
machines

o If you have VMware virtual machines
running on-prem you can use SMS to
replicate these virtual machines up to
the AWS cloud, can do 50 concurrently

Question 3

AWS Snowball

Answer 3

o Enables the movement of terabytes of
data into the cloud

o Briefcase size appliance traditionally
consisting of just storage

      - Connect hardware, load terabytes 
        and send to AWS

o Snowball edge: recently added
compute capacity to functionality