What is AWS Database Migration Service?
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a managed migration and replication service that helps move your database and analytics workloads to AWS quickly, securely, and with minimal downtime and zero data loss. AWS DMS supports migration between 20-plus database and analytics engines, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, MySQL to Amazon Relational Database (RDS) for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, MongoDB to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), Oracle to Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+97 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
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Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
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Data Backup
Data Encryption
Migration Execution
Data Archiving
Intelligent Routing
Security Configuration Mapping
Testing
Process Tracking
Multi-Environment Migration
Data Shaping
Integration Mapping
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Availability and Quality of Training
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Ease of IT Administration
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AWS Database Migration Service Reviews
Abhishek M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2024
amazing one for cross db migrations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Database Migration Service from other similar products?
quick, cheaper and broad range of options
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
live migrations
What do you dislike most about this product?
no option for serverless or on-demand
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
get migrated to aws using dms
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
Sahil Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2024
Easy of use. Brilliant for migration. efficient
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Database Migration Service from other similar products?
Ease of integration with the Databases available on the AWS . No need for any manual intervention from the user apart from the initial configuration. It provides a validation state which compares the data between the Databases in which the migration is implemented and provides accurate data if any discrepancies identified .
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Complete data transfer along with the continuous replication between source and target Databases. Relative speed obtained for the migration process.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The validation for large set of rows can be a bit tideous and the configuration changes when switched to the json editor.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Very useful and beneficial for cloud migration rather then approaching traditional logical backup method. Ease of migrating data between two different db engine's.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Nithish C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2025
DMS Features and its Limitations
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS Database Migration Service from other similar products?
In my experience AWS DMS is better because it supports different type of database migration and it is managing service, so I don’t need to worry too much about infra. Other tools I try was more complex and not work smooth with AWS.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The thing I like most is setup is very easy, I just create task, and it start migration without lot of manual work. Also, the continuous replication feature saves me much time during cutover.
What do you dislike most about this product?
One drawback I experienced is that MongoDB versions above 8.0 are not supported for migration or data validation. Pre-migration assessment is also limited, as it’s mainly available for certain SQL databases and not for most NoSQL databases. In addition, I noticed that endpoint connections can sometimes fail when integrating with AWS Secrets Manager, which makes troubleshooting more challenging.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend checking the database version compatibility before planning your migration, especially if you are working with NoSQL systems like MongoDB. It’s also a good idea to run a pre-migration assessment and test migration tasks to identify gaps early. If you plan to use Secrets Manager for database credentials, make sure to validate endpoint connections in advance and set up proper monitoring so that issues can be caught quickly during the migration process.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy