Selecting an Appropriate Data Transfer Service
AWS DMS along with AWS SCT facilitates a rapid and secure database migration to the cloud. However, there are pockets or silos of data marts within an organization that aren’t stored on traditional database servers, including data such as email archives, images and videos, and flat files. This section will cover some data transfer options (online and offline) offered by AWS for migrating large sets of data from an organization’s on-premises data center to the AWS cloud.
Online Data Transfer
AWS provides a wide assortment of services that organizations can leverage to migrate data from on-premises data centers to the AWS cloud via the internet (online mode). Some of these services are described here.
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway provides a hybrid connectivity and storage delivery medium between an organization’s legacy on-premises hardware and the storage services on the AWS cloud. AWS Storage...