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 or MariaDB database to an existing Aurora MySQL DB cluster.

For a discussion of how to do so with MySQL databases that are very large, see Importing data to a MySQL or MariaDB DB instance with reduced downtime. For MySQL databases that have smaller amounts of data, see Importing data from a MySQL or MariaDB DB to a MySQL or MariaDB DB instance.