The service “leads you to a solution in minutes,” Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and ML for AWS, said in a keynote address at the re:Invent conference. Meanwhile, AWS also introduced database tools to ease the migration process. The new AWS Database Fleet Advisor, launching in preview, automates migration for an entire fleet of databases. “Building a migration plan for an entire fleet of databases is a challenging thing to do,” Sivasubramanian said, noting that it entails conducting an inventory of databases, creating the right migration path for each and determining the right AWS target service. The process is highly manual, can take weeks or months, and often requires third-party assistance. With AWS DMS Fleet Advisor, the process can take just hours, Sivasubramanian said. The service collects and analyzes database schemas and objects, including information on feature metadata, schema objects, and usage metrics. It then allows the customer to build a customized migration plan by determining the complexity of migrating source databases to target services in AWS. “Supporting both Oracle and SQL Server will open up the benefits of managed databases to many more,” Sivasubramanian said.
