What is AWS Database Migration Service?
This cloud service can transfer relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and other data storage. AWS Database Migration Service(AWS DMS) may migrate data between cloud and on-premises settings or to AWS Cloud.
You can transfer your data, transform your source schemas, and find your source data storage with AWS DMS.
You may utilize DMS Fleet Advisor to learn about your source data infrastructure. In order to create an inventory of servers, databases, and schemas that you may move to the AWS Cloud, this tool gathers information from your on-premises database and analytics servers.
DMS Schema Conversion can be used to switch to a different database engine. Your source schemas are automatically evaluated and converted to a new target engine using this service. As an alternative, you can convert your source schemas by downloading the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to your local computer.
You may use AWS Database Migration Service to migrate your data once you have changed your source schemas and applied the modified code to your target database. To maintain sources and targets in sync, you can duplicate continuous updates or carry out one-time migrations. You may benefit from AWS services’ cost effectiveness, speed to market, security, and flexibility since AWS DMS is a component of the AWS Cloud.
AWS Database Migration Service is essentially a server that runs replication software within the AWS Cloud. To instruct AWS DMS where to load and extract data, you establish a source and target connection. To relocate your data, you then set up a task to run on this server. If the tables and related primary keys are not present on the target, AWS DMS generates them. If you’d want, you may make the target tables yourself. Alternatively, you may generate part or all of the target tables, triggers, views, indexes, and other components using the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT).
AWS Database Migration Service uses generative AI to automate time-consuming schema conversion operations
Starting today, up to 90% of schema objects from commercial databases may be automatically converted to PostgreSQL migrations using a new feature introduced by AWS Database Migration Service Schema Conversion (AWS DMS SC).
AWS DMS migrates relational, data warehousing, and NoSQL databases. AWS DMS may transport data between cloud and on-premises settings or into AWS.
AWS Database Migration Service has been used to move over 1 million databases to date. You may move your data between database systems with the aid of AWS DMS. Additionally, AWS DMS SC assists in converting the source database schema and procedures to the destination database system during database engine migrations.
Nevertheless, even though AWS DMS SC automates a lot of these conversion processes, some intricate database code components still need to be handled by hand, which can increase the cost and duration of the transfer. This is especially true for data type conversions and proprietary system methods or processes, which don’t necessarily have direct PostgreSQL counterparts.
By automating some of the most laborious schema conversion processes, AWS DMS SC’s new generative AI feature aims to alleviate these issues. The new feature extends the conversion capabilities with large language models (LLMs) stored on Amazon Bedrock. It transforms sophisticated processes and functions as well as code fragments in the source database that were previously unsupported by conventional rule-based approaches.
Code conversion aided by generative AI shortens project schedules and lowers migration expenses. You can concentrate on higher-value activities like improving and optimizing your apps after migration instead of manually filling in conversion gaps since AWS DMS SC automates a larger portion of the schema conversion process. These AI-powered capabilities in AWS Database Migration Service(DMS) SC have already proven successful for test clients, resulting in speedier migrations and cost savings.
Let’s find out how it works
It will go over the schema conversion procedure in AWS Database Migration Service SC to show how simple it is to use this new generative AI capabilities. By automatically transforming the structure of my source database including tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and more into a format that is compatible with my target database, AWS DMS SC streamlines database migration. When an object cannot be transformed automatically, it is marked for manual attention.
This feature is initially disabled to satisfy your compliance needs, but you may turn it on when necessary. Depending on the complexity of the items being converted, AWS DMS SC will dynamically pick between generative AI and conventional rule-based techniques if you wish to employ its generative AI capabilities. Clients with stringent anti-generative AI policies can still only use the rule-based method, necessitating human changes for any partially or completely transformed items.
Accessibility
- The AWS Regions of US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) provide this capability.
- Generative AI-powered AWS DMS Schema Conversion gives you a quicker migration path and speeds up your move to AWS.