Creating an IAM role for Amazon DMS to manage Amazon VPC - Amazon Relational Database Service
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Creating an IAM role for Amazon DMS to manage Amazon VPC

You must create an IAM role for Amazon DMS to manage the VPC settings for your resources. This role must be available for successful migration.

Creating the dms-vpc-role for database migration

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/iam/.

  2. In the navigation pane of the console, choose Roles and then choose Create role.

  3. Choose the Amazon Web Services service option for the Select trusted entity option.

    For Use case, select DMS.

  4. For the Add permissions step, select AmazonDMSVPCManagementRole and choose Next.

  5. In the Name, review, and create page, set the Role name to dms-vpc-role and choose Create role.