On: AWS Database Migration Service

[tehalex]

You can migrate in our out of AWS, but one or both of your endpoints needs to be on AWS.

[LeoPanthera → tehalex]

I wonder if you could realistically do a two stage migration, X -> Amazon -> Y

[tbrock → LeoPanthera]

Amazon probably wouldn't care if you did. They still get paid to shuffle the bits.

[louis-paul → tbrock]

What they really want is keep you on RDS, not just get paid for the migration bandwidth.

[ProblemFactory → louis-paul]

Sure. But by forcing you to go through RDS even if you migrate X->RDS->Y, they are halfway there.

In the process you need to set up an AWS account, create a RDS database, import your data into it... and perhaps you stop there despite the initial plans. Or use RDS for your next project, since you are already more familiar with it.