Prerequisites - Database Migration Guide
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Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are also required to complete this walkthrough:

  • Familiarity with the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Database Migration Service (Amazon DMS), and SQL.

  • Create an Amazon account with an Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials. This account should allow you to launch Amazon RDS instances and run Amazon DMS data migrations in your and Amazon Region. For more information, see Create an IAM User.

  • Basic knowledge of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) service and of security groups. For information about using Amazon VPC with Amazon RDS, see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs) and Amazon RDS. For information about Amazon RDS security groups, see Controlling access with security groups.

  • An understanding of the supported features and limitations of homogeneous data migrations in Amazon DMS. For example, you can’t apply table mapping rules to your homogeneous data migration. For more information, see Limitations for homogeneous data migrations.

We recommend that you don’t use your production workloads for the migration in this walkthrough. After you get familiar with migration tools and Amazon services, you can migrate your production workloads. Also, make sure that you use a source PostgreSQL database that is version 10.5 or later.

Make sure that you create all your resources in the Amazon Regions that support homogeneous data migrations in Amazon DMS. For more information, see the list of supported Regions.

For more information about migrating self-managed PostgreSQL databases to the Amazon Cloud, Migrating PostgreSQL Databases to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.