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Performing your migration

Performing your migration - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Performing your migration

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- [Instructor] To assist with some common database migration scenarios, AWS has published migration playbooks with step-by-step instructions. This includes migrations such as Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, or Oracle to Amazon Redshift. Once the database schema has been migrated, using the tool's schema conversion tool if needed, you're ready to move your data from the source database to the target. The method you use to migrate your data depends on your application availability requirements. The data migration service can perform a one-time copy or continuous replication 'til your ready to cut over to the new database. An offline database migration is an alternative option using DMS. You can do this by using a CSV file, a database dump, an ETL job, or an Oracle copy to PostgreSQL utility. Testing is a required part of database migrations. Functional testing should allow you to determine if your application is working correctly with the new database. When doing performance…

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