AWS Migration Hub

AWS Migration Hub is a management and tracking tool that provides a centralized dashboard to monitor and manage application migrations, including database migrations. It does not perform the actual migration but helps organize and monitor migration activities across multiple AWS services and tools.

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1. Common Use Cases

  1. Tracks the progress of migrations from multiple sources in one place.
  2. Integrates with services like AWS DMS, AWS Application Migration Service, and third-party tools.
  3. Suggests migration strategies (e.g., rehost, re-platform, re-architect) based on the discovered data.

2. Analogy

Think of AWS Migration Hub as the project manager and AWS DMS as the technical expert:

  1. Migration Hub manages and tracks the overall migration project, ensuring all pieces (databases, applications, servers) are progressing.
  2. AWS DMS is the hands-on worker that focuses on migrating the database component.