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Document history - AWS Database Migration Service

The following table describes the important changes to the AWS Database Migration Service user guide documentation after January 2018.

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ChangeDescriptionDate

AWS DMS updated support for an AWS service-linked role

AWS DMS updated AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy to allow dms:StartReplicationTaskAssessmentRun to support running premigration assessments. AWS DMS also updated the serverless service-linked role to create S3 buckets and put the premigration assessment results into those buckets.

February 14, 2025

AWS DMS added support for a new AWS managed policy

AWS DMS added dms:ModifyReplicationTask which is required by AWS DMS Serverless to call the ModifyReplicationTask operation to modify a replication task. AWS DMS added dms:ModifyReplicationInstance which is required by AWS DMS Serverless to call ModifyReplicationInstance operation to modify a replication instance.

January 17, 2025

AWS DMS added support for enhanced monitoring dashboard

AWS DMS now includes the enhanced monitoring dashboard that provides comprehensive visibility into critical metrics for your data migration tasks and replication instances.

September 19, 2024

AWS DMS added support for RDS IBM DB2 as a target

AWS DMS now supports using Amazon RDS IBM DB2 as a target.

December 4, 2023

AWS DMS added support for Timestream as a target.

AWS DMS now supports Timestream as a target.

November 17, 2023

AWS DMS added support for Redshift target data validation

AWS DMS now supports validating data in Redshift targets.

November 14, 2023

AWS DMS added support for four new endpoint types

AWS DMS now supports using Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL, OCI MySQL Heatwave, and Google Cloud for PostgreSQL as a source.

October 26, 2023

AWS DMS added support for a new AWS service-linked role

AWS DMS now supports the AWS service-linked role AWSServiceRoleForDMSServerless that allows AWS DMS to create and manage resources on your behalf, such as publishing metric data points to Amazon CloudWatch.

May 22, 2023

AWS DMS added support for a new AWS managed policy

AWS DMS now supports the AWS managed policy that allows publishing serverless replication logs to CloudWatch Logs.

May 22, 2023

AWS DMS added support for a new AWS managed policy

AWS DMS now supports the AWS managed policy that allows publishing metric data points to Amazon CloudWatch. Also, AWS DMS started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.

March 6, 2023

Support VPC source and target endpoints

AWS DMS now supports virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints as sources and targets. AWS DMS can now connect to any AWS service with VPC endpoints when explicitly defined routes to the services are defined in their AWS DMS VPC.

June 30, 2022

Support SQL Server read replica as a source

AWS DMS now supports SQL Server read replica as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from SQL Server read replica to any AWS DMS supported target.

June 30, 2022

Support IBM Db2 z/OS databases as a source for full load only

AWS DMS now supports IBM Db2 z/OS databases as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from Db2 mainframes to any AWS DMS supported target.

June 30, 2022

Support EventBridge DMS events

AWS DMS supports managing event subscriptions using EventBridge for DMS events.

June 30, 2022

Support Babelfish as a target

AWS DMS now supports Babelfish as a target. Using AWS DMS, you can now migrate live data from any AWS DMS supported source to a Babelfish, with minimal downtime.

June 30, 2022

Support Aurora Serverless v2 as a target

AWS DMS now supports Aurora Serverless v2 as a target. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations to Aurora Serverless v2.

June 30, 2022

Getting Started Tutorial

An update for the Getting Started Tutorial for AWS DMS. The tutorial uses a MySQL database as a source and a PostgreSQL database as a target.

May 20, 2021

Support for Amazon Neptune as a target

Added support for Amazon Neptune as a target for data migration.

June 1, 2020

Support for Apache Kafka as a target

Added support for Apache Kafka as a target for data migration.

March 20, 2020

Updated security content

Updated and standardized security content as a response to customer requests.

December 20, 2019

Migrating with AWS Snowball Edge

Added support for using AWS Snowball Edge to migrate large databases.

January 24, 2019

Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a target

Added support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a target for data migration.

January 9, 2019

Support for Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as targets

Added support for OpenSearch Service and Kinesis Data Streams as targets for data migration.

November 15, 2018

CDC native start support

Added support for native start points when using change data capture (CDC).

June 28, 2018

Db2 LUW support

Added support for IBM Db2 LUW as a source for data migration.

April 26, 2018

SQL Server as target support

Added support for Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as a source.

February 6, 2018

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