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Step 5: Create an Instance Profile - Database Migration Guide

Step 5: Create an Instance Profile

Before you create an instance profile, configure a subnet group for your instance profile.

To create a subnet group

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS DMS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/dms/v2/.

  2. Choose your AWS Region.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Subnet groups, and then choose Create subnet group.

  4. For Name, enter PrivateSubnetGroup.

  5. For Description, enter A group of private subnets.

  6. For VPC, choose sc-vpc. You created this VPC in Step 1.

  7. For Add subnets, choose two private subnet IDs. You noted these private subnet IDs in Step 1.

  8. Choose Create subnet group.

Before you create your migration project in DMS Schema Conversion, you set up an instance profile. An instance profile specifies network and security settings for DMS Schema Conversion.

To create an instance profile

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS DMS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/dms/v2/.

  2. Choose your AWS Region.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Instance profiles, and then choose Create instance profile.

  4. For Name, enter a unique name for your instance profile. For example, enter sc-instance.

  5. For Virtual private cloud (VPC), choose sc-vpc. You created this VPC in Step 1.

  6. For Subnet group, choose the PrivateSubnetGroup subnet group that you created before.

  7. For S3 bucket under Schema conversion settings - optional, choose an Amazon S3 bucket that you created in Step 1.

  8. For IAM role, choose the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that grants access to Amazon S3. You created this role in Step 1.

  9. Choose Create instance profile.

Use this instance profile when you create your migration project in Step 7.

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