Ingesting data from transactional sources using AWS DMS
When you have on-premises or AWS RDS transactional data sources that don’t natively support zero-ETL integrations and you want to replicate or migrate that data to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse for consolidation or reporting purposes, you can utilize the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). AWS DMS is a fully managed service that helps in performing full load as well as ongoing change data capture from supported transactional data sources to Amazon Redshift.
In this recipe, we will do a full replication of the parts table from Amazon RDS MySQL, servicing as a transactional source, to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse (serverless or provisioned cluster).
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, you will need:
- Amazon Redshift data warehouse deployed in the eu-west-1 AWS region
- Amazon Redshift data warehouse admin user credentials
- An IAM user with access to Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS...