Migrating MySQL-Compatible Databases to AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has several services that allow you to run a MySQL-compatible database on AWS. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) supports MySQL-compatible databases including MySQL, MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora MySQL. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides platforms for running MySQL-compatible databases.
Migrating From | Solution |
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An RDS for MySQL DB instance |
You can migrate data directly from an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB snapshot to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. For details, see Migrating Data from an Amazon RDS MySQL DB Instance to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB Cluster. |
A MySQL database external to Amazon RDS |
If your database supports the InnoDB or MyISAM tablespaces, you have these options for migrating your data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster:
For more information, see Migrating MySQL to Amazon Aurora MySQL by Using mysqldump. However, for very large databases, you can significantly reduce the amount of time that it takes to migrate your data by copying the source files for your database and restoring those files to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB instance as described in Migrating Data from an External MySQL Database to an Amazon Aurora MySQL Using Amazon S3. |
A database that is not MySQL-compatible |
You can also use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate data from a not MySQL-compatible database. For more information about AWS DMS, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/Welcome.html |