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One of the most important aspects of any migration of data to the cloud is cost optimization.
Luckily, AWS has made this relatively simple thanks to the Database Migration Service. In this
hands-on lab, we are going to use the Database Migrations Service (DMS) to migrate a MySQL
database from an EC2 server to an RDS Aurora MySQL database.

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Create Replication Instance

1. Name our replication instance aurorareplication
2. Give it a Description of mysql to aurora
3. Leave most of the defaults, but change the Allocated storage from 50 to 10
4. Leave Multi-AZ unchecked
5. Uncheck publicly accessible
6. Choose the one with Lab_VPC in the title from the dropdown, but for VPC security
group select the security group for our databases.
7. Multi AZ: Choose Dev or test workload (Single-AZ)
8. Uncheck the Publicly accessible box
9. Click Create

Create Endpoints

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Note: The lab uses an RDS MySQL instance target to stand in for an Aurora DB to speed the
lab's setup for you. The migration process is the same.

1. Start off with our Target Endpoint

2. Check the box for RDS instance
3. Select new-db for the RDS instance
4. Leave defaults:

Target Engine: mysql

Keep the default Server name
Leave Port: set to 3306
leave as User Name

5. Copy the password from the Linux Academy Credentials page and paste it in
6. Run test
7. Create the Target Endpoint

1. Select Source Endpoint

2. Do not check the box for RDS instance
3. Set Endpoint identifier to my-db-source
4. Leave the defaults, and set Source engine to mysql
5. Set Server Name to the private IP address found on the LA credentials page
6. Leave Port set at 3306, and leave cloud_user as User name
7. Copy the password from the LA credentials page and paste it into the Password field
8. Run a test
9. Create the source endpoint

Create the Migration Task

1. Add Identifier: aurorareplicationtask
2. Choose our Replication Instance
3. Choose our Source Endpoint
4. Choose our Target Endpoint
5. Check the box to make sure the task starts on creation
6. Choose Migration Type
7. Choose to not include large objects column
8. Do not enable validation because it will take longer for creation
9. Leave CW logs unchecked
10. Leave default for Table mappings

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11. Create new Selection Rule:

Leave Schema as default

Leave Table name as default
Set Schema name to classicmodels
Leave Action set to Include

12. Create the task

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time. Let's go!

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