Step 9: Running and Monitoring a Data Migration
After you create a data migration, you can run it and monitor its status.
To start a data migration
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS DMS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/dms/v2/
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Choose Migration projects. The Migration projects page opens.
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Choose the migration project that you created in Step 7.
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On the Data migrations tab, choose the data migration that you created in Step 7.
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For Actions, choose Start.
The first launch of a homogeneous data migration requires some setup. AWS DMS creates a serverless environment for your data migration. This process takes up to 15 minutes.
To monitor a data migration
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS DMS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/dms/v2/
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Choose Migration projects. The Migration projects page opens.
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Choose the migration project that you created in Step 7.
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On the Data migrations tab, see the Status column for your data migration. For more information about values in this column, see Statuses of homogeneous data migrations.
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For a running data migration, the Migration progress column displays the percentage of migrated data.
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Choose your data migration. On the Details tab, you can see the progress of your homogeneous data migration.
After AWS DMS completes the full load process, your data migration starts the replication of ongoing changes.
