# Creating data providers in Amazon Database Migration Service
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You can create data providers and use them in Amazon DMS migration projects. Your data provider can be a self-managed engine running on-premises or on an Amazon EC2 instance. Also, your data provider can be a fully managed engine, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora.

For each database, you can create a single data provider. You can use a single data provider in multiple migration projects.

Before creating a migration project, make sure that you have created at least two data providers. One of your data providers must be on an Amazon Web Services service. You can't use Amazon DMS to convert your schemas or migrate your data to an on-premises database.

The following procedure shows you how to create data providers in the Amazon DMS console wizard.

**To create a data provider**

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console, then open the Amazon DMS console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/dms/v2/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/dms/v2/).

1. Choose **Data providers**. The **Data providers** page opens.

1. Choose **Create data provider**. The following table describes the settings.  
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1. Choose **Create data provider**.

After you create a data provider, make sure that you add database connection credentials in Amazon Secrets Manager.