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AWS DMS best practices for moving large tables with table parallelism settings

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The article discusses AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) best practices for migrating large tables using table parallelism settings. It highlights different parallelism options available in AWS DMS and provides guidance on when to use each option.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Source filter: Useful for migrating a subset of table data, but cannot be combined with parallelism settings.
  • Parallel load with partitions-auto: Recommended for migrating complete table data with partitions.
  • Parallel load with subpartitions-auto: Recommended for tables with limited partitions but huge subpartitions.
  • Parallel load with partition-list and subpartitions-auto: Suitable for migrating selected partitions with subpartitions in parallel.
  • Parallel load with partitions-list: Recommended for migrating specific partitions from a table.
  • Parallel load with ranges: Recommended for unpartitioned tables or tables with fewer partitions but a large amount of data.
  • Conclusion: Summarizes the best practices and provides additional resources.


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