Migration and Transfer Services

Question 1

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

Server Migration Service (SMS)

Answer 2

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 3

DataSync

Answer 3

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

Don’t forget DataSync transfers data online and can be used to replicate data cross-Region or cross-account

Question 4

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

List the Snow Family

Answer 5

• Snowcone
• Snowball and Snowball Edge
• Snowmobile

Question 6

Snowcone

Answer 6

• Smallest member
• 8TB,
• Offline shipping
• Online with DataSync

Question 7

Snowball and Snowball Edge

Answer 7

Petabyte (PB) -scale data transport solution
Cheaper then internet transfers
Transfer data in and out

When going into the exam, don’t forget the services natively supported by Snowball Edge, like EC2 and Lambda.

Question 8

Snowmobile

Answer 8

Multi-petabyte (PB) or exabyte (EB) scale
Data loaded to S3
Securely transported.