AWS Migration & Transfer services

Question 1

What is Database Migration Service (DMS)?

Answer 1

DMS helps you migrate databases to or within AWS.

• Migrate on-premises databases to AWS
• Continuous data replication
• Supports homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations
• Virtually no downtime

Question 2

What are the Database Migration Service (DMS) real world scenarios?

Answer 2

• Migrate on-premises Oracle database to Aurora MySQL
• Migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Oracle on EC2
• Migrate an RDS Oracle database to Aurora MySQL

Question 3

What is Server Migration Service (SMS)?

Answer 3

SMS allows you to migrate on-premises servers to AWS.

• Migrates on-premises servers to AWS
• Server saved as a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Use AMI to launch servers as EC2 instances

Question 4

What is the AWS Snow Family?

Answer 4

The Snow Family allows you to transfer large amounts of on-premises data to AWS using a physical device.

• Snowcone
• Snowball and Snowball Edge
• Snowmobile

Question 5

What is AWS Snowcone?

Answer 5

• Smallest member of data transport devices
• 8 terabytes of usable storage
• Offline shipping
• Online with DataSync

Question 6

What is AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge?

Answer 6

• Petabyte-scale data transport solution
• Cheaper than internet transfer
• Transfer data in and out
• Snowball Edge supports EC2 and Lambda

Question 7

What is AWS Snowmobile?

Answer 7

• Multi-petabyte or exabyte scale
• Data loaded to S3
• Securely transported

Question 8

What is Amazon DataSync?

Answer 8

DataSync allows for online data transfer from on-premises to AWS storage services like S3 or EFS.

• Migrates data from on-premises to AWS
• Copy data over Direct Connect or the internet
• Copy data between AWS storage services
• Replicate data cross-region or cross-account