# Document history The following table describes the important changes to the AWS Database Migration Service user guide documentation after January 2018. You can subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of updates to this documentation. For more details on AWS DMS version releases, see [AWS DMS release notes](CHAP_ReleaseNotes.md). | Change | Description | Date | | --- |--- |--- | | [AWS DMS added support for a new AWS managed role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy.html) | AWS DMS updated `AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy` to allow DMS to create S3 buckets and put premigration assessment results into those buckets for replication tasks not related to DMS serverless. | November 5, 2025 | | [End of support notice](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/dms_fleet.advisor-end-of-support.html) | End of support notice: On May 20, 2026, AWS will end support for AWS Database Migration Service Fleet Advisor. After May 20, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS DMS Fleet Advisor console or AWS DMS Fleet Advisor resources. For more information, see [AWS DMS Fleet Advisor end of support](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/dms_fleet.advisor-end-of-support.html). | May 20, 2025 | | [AWS DMS updated support for an AWS service-linked role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/slr-services-sl.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSDMSServerlessServiceRolePolicy.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.DB2.html) | AWS DMS now supports using Amazon RDS IBM DB2 as a target. | December 4, 2023 | | [AWS DMS added support for Timestream as a target.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Timestream) | AWS DMS now supports Timestream as a target. | November 17, 2023 | | [AWS DMS added support for Redshift target data validation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Validating.html#CHAP_Validating.Redshift) | AWS DMS now supports validating data in Redshift targets. | November 14, 2023 | | [AWS DMS added support for four new endpoint types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/slr-services-sl.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/security-iam-awsmanpol.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_VPC_Endpoints.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.SQLServer.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.DB2zOS.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_EventBridge.html) | AWS DMS supports managing event subscriptions using EventBridge for DMS events. | June 30, 2022 | | [Support Babelfish as a target](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Babelfish.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_GettingStarted.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Neptune.html) | Added support for Amazon Neptune as a target for data migration. | June 1, 2020 | | [Support for Apache Kafka as a target](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.Kafka.html) | Added support for Apache Kafka as a target for data migration. | March 20, 2020 | | [Updated security content](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Security.html) | Updated and standardized security content as a response to customer requests. | December 20, 2019 | | [Migrating with AWS Snowball Edge](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_LargeDBs.html) | Added support for using AWS Snowball Edge Edge to migrate large databases. | January 24, 2019 | | [Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a target](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.DocumentDB.html) | 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Target.html) | Added support for OpenSearch Service and Kinesis Data Streams as targets for data migration. | November 15, 2018 | | [CDC native start support](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Task.CDC.html) | Added support for native start points when using change data capture (CDC). | June 28, 2018 | | [Db2 LUW support](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.DB2.html) | Added support for IBM Db2 LUW as a source for data migration. | April 26, 2018 | | [SQL Server as target support](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Source.SQLServer.html) | Added support for Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as a source. | February 6, 2018 |