Version: 1.0

Migration Services

Snow Family

Snowcone
- 8 TB of storage, 4 GB of memory and 3 vCPUs
- IOT sensor migration
Snowball Edge
- 48 to 81 TB in storage
Snowmobile
- 100 PB of storage

Hybrid cloud storage service helps to merge on-premises resources with the cloud
It can help with a one-time migration or a long-term pairing of your architecture with AWS
Types
- S3 File Gateway
  - Configured S3 buckets are accessible using the NFS and SMB protocol
  - Most recently used data is cached in the File gateway
  - Bucket access using IAM roles for each File Gateway
  - SMB Protocol has integration with Active Directory (AD) for user authentication
- FSx File Gateway
  - Native access to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
  - Local cache for frequently accessed data
- Volume Gateway
  - Block storage using iSCSI protocol backed by S3
  - Two types
    - Cached volumes
    - Stored volumes
- Tape Gateway
  - Some companies have backup process using physical tapes

Move large amount of data to and from
- On-premises / other cloud to AWS (NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3 API ...)
- Needs agent
An agent-based solution for migrating on-premises storage to AWS
It allows to easily move data between NFS and SMB shares and AWS storage solutions

Allows to easily move files in and out of S3 or EFS FTP Protocol
It supports:
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS)
- Secure Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Managed infrastructure, Scalable, Reliable, Highly Available (multi-AZ)

Gives a single place to track the progress of your applications migration to AWS
It integrates with Server Migration Service (SMS) and Database Migration Service (DMS)

Helps plan (track) migrations to AWS via collection of usage and configuration data from on-premise servers
Two types:
- Agentless Discovery (AWS Agentless Discovery Connector)
- Agent-based Discovery (AWS Application Discovery Agent)

Is the primary migration service recommended for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS
AWS encourages customers who are currently using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to switch to AWS MGN for future migrations
AWS MGN enables organizations to move applications to AWS without having to make any changes to the applications, their architecture, or the migrated servers

Helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely
The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database
Can migrate your data to and from the most widely used commercial and open-source databases
Supports homogeneous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora.
Can continuously replicate your data with high availability and consolidate databases into a petabyte-scale data warehouse by streaming data to Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3
AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT):
- Convert db schema from one engine to another