AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Overview
Question
Which of the following options is TRUE for AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)?
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A. B. C. D. E.Answer: E.
All the options are CORRECT.
Options are clearly described in the AWS DMS documentation at the link below.
Option A is TRUE and is the “most common” way to use AWS DMS.
Option B is TRUE and can be used to create a copy (or migrate) a database from AWS to the on-premise data center.
Option C is TRUE and can be used to migrate the IaaS solution (e.g., generated from a lift-and-shift wave) to a managed service like Amazon RDS.
Option D is TRUE, according to AWS documentation.
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https://aws.amazon.com/dms/ https://aws.amazon.com/dms/faqs/The correct answer is E, which means that all the given options are true for AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a managed service that makes it easy to migrate data from one database to another. It supports both homogenous and heterogeneous migrations, meaning that you can migrate data between databases that are running on the same platform, or between different platforms.
Let's look at each option in detail:
A. AWS DMS can migrate databases from on-premise to AWS: This option is true. AWS DMS can migrate data from on-premise databases to Amazon Web Services (AWS) databases, including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB.
B. AWS DMS can migrate databases from AWS to on-premise: This option is true. AWS DMS can migrate data from AWS databases, including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB, to on-premise databases.
C. AWS DMS can migrate databases from EC2 to Amazon RDS: This option is also true. AWS DMS can migrate data from databases running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to Amazon RDS, which is a managed relational database service.
D. AWS DMS can have Amazon Redshift and Amazon DynamoDB as target databases: This option is true as well. AWS DMS can migrate data to several target databases, including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB.
Therefore, all the options given in the question are true for AWS DMS, making option E the correct answer.
