Introduction to AWS Database Migration Service

This lab will provide you with a basic understanding of using the AWS Database Migration Service. In this lab you will migrate data from a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance to an Amazon Aurora RDS instance. This lab has a longer startup time of at least 15 minutes to allow the lab resources to fully launch and initialize.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Connect to a pre-created Amazon EC2 instance
• Configure MySQL Server as your source database for migration
• Connect to a pre-created Amazon Aurora instance
• Migrate data from your MySQL server to your Aurora instance
• Verify that your migration was successful

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers
• Infrastructure Engineers
• Systems Operators

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with database principles and SQL
• Comfortable using RDP to connect to a Windows server
• Familiar with Amazon Aurora

Course Outline

• Task 1: Connect to your Amazon EC2 instance
• Task 2: Configure and connect to your source MySQL database
• Task 3: Use MySQL Workbench to connect to your RDS instance
• Task 4: Migrate your source MySQL database to your Aurora instance using AWS Database Migration Service