Document history - Amazon Database Migration Service
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Document history

The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Database Migration Service user guide documentation after January 2018.

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ChangeDescriptionDate

Amazon DMS added support for RDS IBM DB2 as a target

Amazon DMS now supports using Amazon RDS IBM DB2 as a target.

December 4, 2023

Amazon DMS added support for Timestream as a target.

Amazon DMS now supports Timestream as a target.

November 17, 2023

Amazon DMS added support for Redshift target data validation

Amazon DMS now supports validating data in Redshift targets.

November 14, 2023

Amazon DMS added support for four new endpoint types

Amazon DMS now supports using Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL, OCI MySQL Heatwave, and Google Cloud for PostgreSQL as a source.

October 26, 2023

Amazon DMS added support for a new Amazon service-linked role

Amazon DMS now supports the Amazon service-linked role AWSServiceRoleForDMSServerless that allows Amazon DMS to create and manage resources on your behalf, such as publishing metric data points to Amazon CloudWatch.

May 22, 2023

Amazon DMS added support for a new Amazon managed policy

Amazon DMS now supports the Amazon managed policy that allows publishing serverless replication logs to CloudWatch Logs.

May 22, 2023

Amazon DMS added support for a new Amazon managed policy

Amazon DMS now supports the Amazon managed policy that allows publishing metric data points to Amazon CloudWatch. Also, Amazon DMS started tracking changes for its Amazon managed policies.

March 6, 2023

Support VPC source and target endpoints

Amazon DMS now supports virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints as sources and targets. Amazon DMS can now connect to any Amazon service with VPC endpoints when explicitly defined routes to the services are defined in their Amazon DMS VPC.

June 30, 2022

Support SQL Server read replica as a source

Amazon DMS now supports SQL Server read replica as a source. Using Amazon DMS, you can now perform live migrations from SQL Server read replica to any Amazon DMS supported target.

June 30, 2022

Support IBM Db2 z/OS databases as a source for full load only

Amazon DMS now supports IBM Db2 z/OS databases as a source. Using Amazon DMS, you can now perform live migrations from Db2 mainframes to any Amazon DMS supported target.

June 30, 2022

Support EventBridge DMS events

Amazon DMS supports managing event subscriptions using EventBridge for DMS events.

June 30, 2022

Support Babelfish as a target

Amazon DMS now supports Babelfish as a target. Using Amazon DMS, you can now migrate live data from any Amazon DMS supported source to a Babelfish, with minimal downtime.

June 30, 2022

Support Aurora Serverless v2 as a target

Amazon DMS now supports Aurora Serverless v2 as a target. Using Amazon DMS, you can now perform live migrations to Aurora Serverless v2.

June 30, 2022

Getting Started Tutorial

An update for the Getting Started Tutorial for Amazon DMS. The tutorial uses a MySQL database as a source and a PostgreSQL database as a target.

May 20, 2021

Support for Amazon Neptune as a target

Added support for Amazon Neptune as a target for data migration.

June 1, 2020

Support for Apache Kafka as a target

Added support for Apache Kafka as a target for data migration.

March 20, 2020

Updated security content

Updated and standardized security content as a response to customer requests.

December 20, 2019

Migrating with Amazon Snowball Edge

Added support for using Amazon Snowball Edge to migrate large databases.

January 24, 2019

Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a target

Added support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a target for data migration.

January 9, 2019

Support for Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as targets

Added support for OpenSearch Service and Kinesis Data Streams as targets for data migration.

November 15, 2018

CDC native start support

Added support for native start points when using change data capture (CDC).

June 28, 2018

Db2 LUW support

Added support for IBM Db2 LUW as a source for data migration.

April 26, 2018

SQL Server as target support

Added support for Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as a source.

February 6, 2018