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Exporting target recommendations with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor

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Exporting target recommendations with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor - AWS Database Migration Service

After you generate target recommendations, you can save a copy of the list of recommendations as a comma-separated value (CSV) file.

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

    Make sure that you choose the AWS Region where you use the DMS Fleet Advisor.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Recommendations under Assess, and then select the recommendations to include in your CSV file.

  3. Choose Export to CSV, enter the file name and choose the folder on your PC where to save this file.

  4. Open the CSV file.

The CSV file with recommendations contains the following information.

  • CreatedDate – The date when DMS Fleet Advisor created the target engine recommendation.

  • DatabaseId – The identifier of the source database for which DMS Fleet Advisor created this recommendation.

  • DeploymentOption – The deployment option for the recommended Amazon RDS DB instance.

  • EngineEdition – The recommended target Amazon RDS engine edition.

  • EngineName – The name of the target engine.

  • InstanceMemory – The amount of memory on the recommended Amazon RDS DB instance.

  • InstanceSizingType – The size of your target instance.

  • InstanceType – The recommended target Amazon RDS instance type.

  • InstanceVcpu – The number of virtual CPUs on the recommended Amazon RDS DB instance.

  • Preferred – A Boolean flag that indicates that this target option is recommended.

  • Status – The status of the target engine recommendation.

  • StorageIops – The number of I/O operations completed each second (IOPS) on the recommended Amazon RDS DB instance.

  • StorageSize – The storage size of the recommended Amazon RDS DB instance.

  • StorageType – The storage type of the recommended Amazon RDS DB instance.

  • WorkloadType – The deployment option for your target engine such as Multi-AZ or Single-AZ deployment.

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