# AWS Database Migration Service

> The only migration tool I use. It works.

- Verdict: My default
- Vendor: AWS
- Layer: [Data](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/data.md). Job: Database migrations
- Last reviewed: 18 October 2026, by Nicolas Dao (Cloudless Labs, Sydney)
- Web page: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/aws-dms/. The whole stack in one file: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md

Migrations are a core part of my work, and DMS has never let me down.

## Use it when

- Moving on-premises or other-cloud databases into AWS, with ongoing replication until cut-over.

## Provisioning

Official Pulumi package · Official Terraform provider

## Where it fits

- [Moving on-premises systems to AWS](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/use-cases/migration.md): pick 2. Database migration with replication until cut-over.

## Related

- [Data](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/data.md): every tool in this layer, with its verdict
- [The whole stack in one file](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md): every use case and tool, for questions that span many
- [Map of every Markdown file on cloudlesslabs.com, with what each one answers](https://ask.cloudlesslabs.com)