Introduction to Amazon ElastiCache

This lab will provide you with a basic understanding of using the AWS Database Migration Service. In this lab you will migrate data from a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance to an Amazon Aurora RDS instance. This lab has a longer startup time of at least 15 minutes to allow the lab resources to fully launch and initialize.

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Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Connect to a pre-created Amazon EC2 instance
• Configure MySQL Server as your source database for migration
• Connect to a pre-created Amazon Aurora instance
• Migrate data from your MySQL server to your Aurora instance
• Verify that your migration was successful

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Data Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with database principles and SQL
• Comfortable using RDP to connect to a Windows server
• Familiar with Amazon Aurora
  
  

Course Outline

• Task 1: Connect to your Amazon EC2 instance
• Task 2: Configure and connect to your source MySQL database
• Task 3: Use MySQL Workbench to connect to your RDS instance
• Task 4: Migrate your source MySQL database to your Aurora instance using AWS Database Migration Service