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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Challenge

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 10 minutes

Students: 2,049

Rating: 3.8/5

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In this challenge lab, your AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and Relational Database Service skills are put to the test. You need to complete several tasks that result in successfully migrating a database between two real RDS instances before time runs out.

Updates

May 5th, 2025 - Resolved failed provisioning block issue

March 21st, 2024 - Resolved deployment issue

May 22nd, 2023 - Resolved an issue that caused the lab to fail to setup on rare occasions

July 25th, 2022 - Extended lab duration and adjusted the expected lab startup time to reflect the additional delays observed in creating DMS replication instances

March 2nd, 2022 - Updated PostgreSQL version

July 29th, 2021 - Clarified that the task should be started manually if it doesn't start automatically

July 22nd, 2021 - Clarified that testing endpoint connections is required to run a migration task

April 9th, 2021 - Modified the migration task check to be more tolerant of input values for the exclude rule

February 18th, 2021 - Addressed an issue that was preventing completion of the challenge