AWS services for ingesting data
The first step in building big data analytic solutions is to ingest data from a variety of sources into AWS. In this section, we introduce some of the core AWS services designed to help with this; however, this should not be considered a comprehensive review of every possible way to ingest data into AWS.
Don't feel overwhelmed by the number of services we cover in this section! We will explore approaches for deciding on the right service for your specific use case in later chapters, but it is important to have a good understanding of the available tools upfront.
Overview of Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS)
One of the most common ingestion use cases is to sync data from a traditional database system into an analytic pipeline, either landing the data in an Amazon S3-based data lake, or in a data warehousing system such as Amazon Redshift.
Amazon DMS is a versatile tool that can be used to migrate existing database systems to a new...