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Re: AWS Database Migration Service

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Post by dantiberian »

The truly interesting thing to me about this product is the pricing. Competitors in this space sell software starting at ~$5,000 all the way up into 5, and I presume 6 figures.

AWS is giving away their software and only charging for the hardware to run this migration software on. The catch is that you need to be migrating to AWS resources which you are paying for. I'm sure this tool will have less features than the more established competitors, but for customers that fit the sweet spot, it will be very attractive.

Disclosure: I know some of the people at http://www.dbvisit.com/, a database migration company, and competitor to this.

Re: AWS Database Migration Service

#4

Post by toomuchtodo »

dsavinkov wrote: post #3

I wonder, if it will be possible for me to "rollback" back to my "plain" database server if level of service does not satisfy me.

Not unless you're ready to try to create a physical host replica, and then fail over to it as a master during downtime.

Re: AWS Database Migration Service

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Post by Mahn »

dantiberian wrote: post #2

The truly interesting thing to me about this product is the pricing. Competitors in this space sell software starting at ~$5,000 all the way up into 5, and I presume 6 figures. AWS is giving away their software and only charging for the hardware to run this migration software on. The catch is that you need to be migrating to AWS resources which you are paying for. I'm sure this tool will have less features than the m…

Well it's in Amazon's best interest to get people to use and migrate to their infrastructure at the end of the day, so it's no surprise that a service that helps you move to AWS is competitively priced.

Re: AWS Database Migration Service

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Post by tehalex »

dantiberian wrote: post #2

The truly interesting thing to me about this product is the pricing. Competitors in this space sell software starting at ~$5,000 all the way up into 5, and I presume 6 figures. AWS is giving away their software and only charging for the hardware to run this migration software on. The catch is that you need to be migrating to AWS resources which you are paying for. I'm sure this tool will have less features than the m…

You can migrate in our out of AWS, but one or both of your endpoints needs to be on AWS.

Re: AWS Database Migration Service

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Post by aidos »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #4
dsavinkov wrote: post #3

I wonder, if it will be possible for me to "rollback" back to my "plain" database server if level of service does not satisfy me.

Not unless you're ready to try to create a physical host replica, and then fail over to it as a master during downtime.

Is it possible to run a read replica outside of RDS these days?

Re: AWS Database Migration Service

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Post by znep »

drewpc wrote: post #5

Looks like this could be a better way to migrate between major versions of PostgreSQL on RDS than rolling your own.

If you didn't catch it, AWS now supports upgrades between so-called "major versions" (eg. 9.3 -> 9.4). https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/11/rds-postg...
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