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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Overview of DMS

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a tool for moving your data between databases. DMS can be used to migrate data between databases of the same type or between different database engines. If you use it to migrate between different database engines, it will convert the data for you so that it fits the target. DMS can also create target database tables for you, if they do not already exist, in a similar way to SCT. However, it is much less powerful and only converts the minimal database objects that are required for a successful migration. You would still need to manually create most indexes, views, and database code.

DMS has three main components:

  • Endpoints: These allow DMS to connect to databases that are hosted in different VPCs and on-premises.
  • Replication Instance: This is an EC2 instance that's used to run the migration.
  • Tasks: These are the jobs that control and manage the migration process.

To use DMS, you must provide a source...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
Read more about Kate Gawron