Step 2: Configure your data providers - Amazon Database Migration Service
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Step 2: Configure your data providers

Next, you create data providers that describe your source and target databases. For each data provider, you specify a data store type and location information. You don't store your database credentials in a data provider.

To create a data provider for a source on-premises database

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console, and open the Amazon DMS console.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Data providers, and then choose Create data provider.

  3. For Name, enter a unique name for your source data provider. For example, enter sc-source.

  4. For Engine type, choose the type of database engine for your data provider.

  5. Provide your connection information for the source database. The connection parameters depend on your source database engine. For more information, see Creating data providers.

  6. For Secure Socket Layer (SSL) mode, choose the type of SSL enforcement.

  7. Choose Create data provider.

To create a data provider for a target Amazon RDS database

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon DMS console.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Data providers, and then choose Create data provider.

  3. For Configuration, choose RDS database instance.

  4. For Database from RDS, choose Browse, and choose your database. DMS Schema Conversion automatically retrieves the information about the engine type, server name, and port.

  5. For Name, enter a unique name for your target data provider. For example, enter sc-target.

  6. For Database name, enter the name of your database.

  7. For Secure Socket Layer (SSL) mode, choose the type of SSL enforcement.

  8. Choose Create data provider.