Migration Services - INTRO

Snowball -

Snowball started as import and export. Send disk/disks and connect those disks and transfer the data to S3/EC2 etc. Snowball was introduced to avoid disks which comes in different shapes and sizes. It is a brief case sized appliance consists of only storage and load it with terra bytes of data and send back to Amazon. Recently introduced Snowball edge which instead of just being a storage application and added compute capacity like a data center.

DMS - Database Migration Services 

DMS allows on premis data base to cloud and into things like Redshift. Dont have to stay with the migrated data base. DMS will take care of the migration with no downtime.

SMS - Server Migration Services 

This does exactly like DMS but targets VMWare migrations. Can work on 50 concurrently.