Logical migration from MySQL to Amazon Aurora MySQL by using mysqldump

Because Amazon Aurora MySQL is a MySQL-compatible database, you can use the mysqldump utility to copy data from your MySQL database or the mariadb-dump utility to copy your data from your MariaDB database to an existing Aurora MySQL DB cluster.

For a discussion of how to do so with MySQL or MariaDB databases that are very large, see the following topics in the Amazon Relational Database Service User Guide:

• MySQL – Importing data to an Amazon RDS for MySQL database with reduced downtime

• MariaDB – Importing data to an Amazon RDS for MariaDB database with reduced downtime

For MySQL or MariaDB databases that have smaller amounts of data, see the following topics in the Amazon Relational Database Service User Guide:

• MySQL – Importing data from an external MySQL database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance

• MariaDB – Importing data from an external MariaDB database to an Amazon RDS for MariaDB DB instance