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Accelerate your database migration journey using AWS DMS Schema Conversion

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This article provides an overview of AWS DMS Schema Conversion (DMS SC), a new feature that allows you to assess, convert, and migrate your database schema and code objects directly from the AWS DMS console. It focuses on migrating a database from Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Prerequisites (setting up network, storing credentials, creating S3 bucket, and IAM roles)
  • Preparing DMS SC (setting up instance profile, data providers, and migration project)
  • Generating and viewing the assessment report
  • Converting database objects
  • Monitoring the migration project using Amazon CloudWatch
  • Clean up steps


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