Migration and Transfer services

Question 1

What is Database Migration Service (DMS)?

Answer 1

DMS helps you to migrate databases to or within AWS.

Question 2

What is Server Migration Service (SMS)?

Answer 2

SMS Allows you to migrate on premises servers to AWS.

Question 3

What is the Snow Family?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is Snowcone service about?

Answer 4

• Allows transport of 8 terabytes of usable storage.
• Offline shipping.
• Online dataSync

Question 5

What is Snowball and Snowball edge service about?

Answer 5

• Allows transport of petabytes of usable storage.
• Transfer data in and out.
• Cheaper than internet transfer.
• Snowball edge supports EC2 and Lambda.

Question 6

What is Snowmobile service about?

Answer 6

• Multi-petabyte or exabyte scale.
• Data loaded to S3.
• Securely transported (in a truck!!).

Question 7

What is DataSync service about?

Answer 7

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