Description
Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) is an offering from AWS that lets you migrate data between different database versions, engines, and data store types. It's fully managed and can reduce the complexity of technically challenging migration scenarios.
Learning how to use AWS DMS will help anyone looking to work with sophisticated workloads in the public AWS cloud.
In this hands-on lab, you will use Amazon VPC and AWS DMS to securely and efficiently export data from an Amazon RDS instance to Amazon S3.
Please note, this lab creates a DMS replication instance which can take up to 15 minutes to finish creation. Please ensure you have enough time available before starting the lab.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:
- Create an Amazon VPC endpoint
- Restrict access to an Amazon S3 bucket to a VPC endpoint
- Create a secret in AWS Secrets Manager
- Use AWS DMS to export data
Intended audience
- Candidates for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification
- Cloud Architects
- Data Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
- AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:
Environment before
Environment after
About the author
Andrew is a Labs Developer with previous experience in the Internet Service Provider, Audio Streaming, and CryptoCurrency industries. He has also been a DevOps Engineer and enjoys working with CI/CD and Kubernetes.
He holds multiple AWS certifications including Solutions Architect Associate and Professional.