

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

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| Change | Description | Date | 
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| [Amazon DMS added support for a new Amazon managed role](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy.html) | Amazon DMS updated `AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy` to allow DMS to create S3 buckets and put premigration assessment results into those buckets for replication tasks not related to DMS serverless. | November 5, 2025 | 
| [End of support notice](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/dms_fleet.advisor-end-of-support.html) | End of support notice: On May 20, 2026, Amazon will end support for Amazon Database Migration Service Fleet Advisor. After May 20, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the Amazon DMS Fleet Advisor console or Amazon DMS Fleet Advisor resources. For more information, see [Amazon DMS Fleet Advisor end of support](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/dms_fleet.advisor-end-of-support.html). | May 20, 2025 | 
| [Amazon DMS updated support for an Amazon service-linked role](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/slr-services-sl.html) | Amazon DMS updated `AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy` to allow `dms:StartReplicationTaskAssessmentRun` to support running premigration assessments. Amazon DMS also updated the serverless service-linked role to create S3 buckets and put the premigration assessment results into those buckets. | February 14, 2025 | 
| [Amazon DMS added support for a new Amazon managed policy](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy.html) | Amazon DMS added `dms:ModifyReplicationTask` which is required by Amazon DMS Serverless to call the `ModifyReplicationTask` operation to modify a replication task. Amazon DMS added `dms:ModifyReplicationInstance` which is required by Amazon DMS Serverless to call `ModifyReplicationInstance` operation to modify a replication instance. | January 17, 2025 | 
| [Amazon DMS added support for enhanced monitoring dashboard](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html) | Amazon DMS now includes the enhanced monitoring dashboard that provides comprehensive visibility into critical metrics for your data migration tasks and replication instances. | September 19, 2024 | 
| [Amazon DMS added support for RDS IBM DB2 as a target](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.DB2.html) | Amazon DMS now supports using Amazon RDS IBM DB2 as a target. | December 4, 2023 | 
| [Amazon DMS added support for Timestream as a target.](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Timestream) | Amazon DMS now supports Timestream as a target. | November 17, 2023 | 
| [Amazon DMS added support for Redshift target data validation](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Validating.html#CHAP_Validating.Redshift) | Amazon DMS now supports validating data in Redshift targets. | November 14, 2023 | 
| [Amazon DMS added support for four new endpoint types](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/slr-services-sl.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_VPC_Endpoints.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.SQLServer.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.DB2zOS.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_EventBridge.html) | Amazon DMS supports managing event subscriptions using EventBridge for DMS events. | June 30, 2022 | 
| [Support Babelfish as a target](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Babelfish.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_GettingStarted.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Neptune.html) | Added support for Amazon Neptune as a target for data migration. | June 1, 2020 | 
| [Support for Apache Kafka as a target](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Kafka.html) | Added support for Apache Kafka as a target for data migration. | March 20, 2020 | 
| [Updated security content](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Security.html) | Updated and standardized security content as a response to customer requests. | December 20, 2019 | 
| [Migrating with Amazon Snowball Edge](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_LargeDBs.html) | Added support for using Amazon Snowball Edge Edge to migrate large databases. | January 24, 2019 | 
| [Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a target](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.DocumentDB.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.html) | Added support for OpenSearch Service and Kinesis Data Streams as targets for data migration. | November 15, 2018 | 
| [CDC native start support](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Task.CDC.html) | Added support for native start points when using change data capture (CDC). | June 28, 2018 | 
| [Db2 LUW support](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.DB2.html) | Added support for IBM Db2 LUW as a source for data migration. | April 26, 2018 | 
| [SQL Server as target support](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.SQLServer.html) | Added support for Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as a source. | February 6, 2018 | 