CV0-004 Deployment Practice Question
A cloud administrator is planning to migrate a large on-premises database (several TB) to Amazon RDS with minimal downtime. Which TWO AWS services should be considered for this migration?
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AWS Database Migration Service
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) can perform online migrations with minimal downtime using CDC. Schema Conversion Tool helps convert database schema if needed.
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AWS Database Migration Service
Why this is correct
DMS supports minimal downtime migrations via CDC.
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AWS Schema Conversion Tool
Why this is correct
Schema Conversion Tool helps with schema changes, often used with DMS.
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AWS DataSync
Why it's wrong here
DataSync is for file storage, not databases.
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AWS Snowball
Why it's wrong here
Snowball is for offline data transfer, not suitable for minimal downtime.
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S3 Transfer Acceleration
Why it's wrong here
S3 Transfer Acceleration is for S3 uploads, not database migration.
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