Extracting data with AWS DMS

AWS DMS is a versatile tool designed to simplify database migrations and data transformations. While it’s primarily known for database migrations, it’s also a powerful tool for extracting data from your source databases and loading it into other destinations, such as Amazon S3, for further processing, analysis, or archival.

In this recipe, you’ll learn how to use AWS DMS to extract data and migrate it to the cloud, along with converting database schemas using AWS SCT. DMS handles the extraction and migration of your database data, while SCT helps convert the schema when moving between different database engines. By the end of this recipe, you’ll have a streamlined approach to converting database structures and extracting data efficiently, ensuring a smooth transition to AWS services such as Amazon RDS.

In this recipe, we will explore how to extract data from an on-premises database and migrate it to AWS using DMS. This...