Using Amazon DMS with other Amazon services - Amazon Database Migration Service
Support for Amazon CloudFormation
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Using Amazon DMS with other Amazon services

You can use Amazon DMS with several other Amazon services:

  • You can use an Amazon EC2 instance or Amazon RDS DB instance as a target for a data migration.

  • You can use the Amazon Schema Conversion Tool (Amazon SCT) to convert your source schema and SQL code into an equivalent target schema and SQL code.

  • You can use Amazon S3 as a storage site for your data, or you can use it as an intermediate step when migrating large amounts of data.

  • You can use Amazon CloudFormation to set up your Amazon resources for infrastructure management or deployment. For example, you can provision Amazon DMS resources such as replication instances, tasks, certificates, and endpoints. You create a template that describes all the Amazon resources that you want, and Amazon CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.

Amazon DMS support for Amazon CloudFormation

You can provision Amazon DMS resources using Amazon CloudFormation. Amazon CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon resources for infrastructure management or deployment. For example, you can provision Amazon DMS resources such as replication instances, tasks, certificates, and endpoints. You create a template that describes all the Amazon resources that you want and Amazon CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.

As a developer or system administrator, you can create and manage collections of these resources that you can then use for repetitive migration tasks or deploying resources to your organization. For more information about Amazon CloudFormation, see Amazon CloudFormation concepts in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.

Amazon DMS supports creating the following Amazon DMS resources using Amazon CloudFormation: