Configure your data providers for DMS Schema Conversion
Next, you create data providers that describe your source and target databases. For each data provider, you specify a data store type and location information. You don't store your database credentials in a data provider.
To create a data provider for a source on-premises database
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the AWS DMS console.
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In the navigation pane, choose Data providers, and then choose Create data provider.
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For Name, enter a unique name for your source data provider. For example, enter
sc-source. -
For Engine type, choose the type of database engine for your data provider.
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Provide your connection information for the source database. The connection parameters depend on your source database engine. For more information, see Creating data providers.
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For Secure Socket Layer (SSL) mode, choose the type of SSL enforcement.
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Choose Create data provider.
To create a data provider for a target Amazon RDS database
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS DMS console.
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In the navigation pane, choose Data providers, and then choose Create data provider.
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For Configuration, choose RDS database instance.
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For Database from RDS, choose Browse, and choose your database. DMS Schema Conversion automatically retrieves the information about the engine type, server name, and port.
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For Name, enter a unique name for your target data provider. For example, enter
sc-target. -
For Database name, enter the name of your database.
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For Secure Socket Layer (SSL) mode, choose the type of SSL enforcement.
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Choose Create data provider.
