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Why would you go to RDS with such large amounts of data when AWS do not provide ability to get data out easily. If you moved away from AWS in the future for wha
by philliphaydon 10y ago
Why would you go to RDS with such large amounts of data when AWS do not provide ability to get data out easily. If you moved away from AWS in the future for what ever reason your data is more or less stuck in AWS.
- jon-wood 10y agoAmazon released their data migration service a while back, which allows you to transfer data in just about anyway you might want to, they'll migrate data between different RDS engines (MySQL to Postgres for example), and to databases outside AWS. They even support near real-time replication to database servers outside AWS, so you could hypothetically replicate your RDS instances to a fail over environment with another provider. There's very little risk of your data being locked in now. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/dms/?nc2=h_mo https://aws.amazon.com/dms/?nc2=h_mo
- philliphaydon 10y agoUnless you use SQL Server. The dms service is basically useless with sqlserver. We can't get our 200gb do out of AWS. And any method that works without dms takes about 40 hours.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoCan you replicate to a slave outside of RDS and then perform a replica promotion during scheduled maintenance?