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AWS Data Migration and the Benefits

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  AWS (Amazon Web Services) is one of the biggest cloud platforms in the world.   Customers range from large corporations to small businesses and startups, all aiming to become more efficient, innovative, and agile at low costs. Because of the new technology and speed that AWS brings to the table, there is a growing trend to migrate on-premises databases and systems to the AWS platform using the best AWS data migration tool . There are several types of cloud migration. One is to move data and applications from a local on-premises database to a cloud platform and another is to migrate the same from one cloud platform to another, better known as cloud to cloud migration.   There are several benefits of migrating to AWS. It provides separate computing and storage facilities with flexibility in usage. Users can scale up or down in either of them by paying only for the quantum of resources used. This pay model is one of the unique features of AWS. Further, even when multip...

Change Data Capture CDC and AWS DMS Replication

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  Change Data Capture (CDC) is the process that identifies and captures the changes made to the last refreshed data or metadata with periodicity fixed at minutes or even seconds. The changes made are entered in a separate data repository by specific software. Similar to batch loads, CDC ensures that the replication software copies one source to several targets. AWS DMS is a cloud-based service that facilitates easy migration of relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases through AWS DMS CDC . It can also be used for migrating data to the AWS cloud or on-premises setup or a combination of both. Since AWS DMS is a component of the AWS cloud, it has all the features of AWS cloud services like cost efficiency, speed to market, security, and flexibility. An AWS DMS CDC can be created for capturing current changes to the source data during the replication process. Regardless of whether the work is a CDC-only task or a full-load one the migration process has tables only fr...