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About the Amazon DMS collector

Warning

This collector is in public preview. It has passed our standard testing, but it is not yet widely adopted. You might encounter unforeseen edge cases in your environment. data.world is committed to promptly addressing any issues with public preview collectors. If you face any problems, please report them through your Customer Success Director, implementation team, or support team for assistance.

Use this collector to harvest metadata for Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) replication instances, endpoints and replication tasks.

Important

The Amazon DMS collector can be run on-premise using Docker or Jar files.

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.266. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.

What is cataloged

The collector catalogs the following information.

Table 1.

Object

Information cataloged

Replication Instance

  • Arn

  • Name

  • Allocated Storage

  • Engine Version

  • Publicly Accessible

  • Replication Instance Class

  • Instance Status

  • Created Time

Endpoint

  • Arn

  • Name

  • Endpoint Type

  • Engine Display Name

  • Status

  • Engine Name

Replication Task

  • Arn

  • Name

  • Created Date

  • Task Start Date

  • Migration Type

  • Stop Reason

  • Status

  • Task Statistics

    • Elapsed Time (milliseconds)

    • Tables Loaded

    • Tables Loading

    • Tables Queued

    • Tables Errored

    • Start Date

    • Stop Date



Relationships between objects

By default, the harvested metadata includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. If the metadata presentation for this data source has been customized with the help of the data.world Solutions team, you may see other resource pages and relationships.

Table 2.

Resource page

Relationship

Replication Instance

  • Manages endpoint

  • Hosts replication task

Endpoint

  • Is connection for Database

  • Source for data replication

  • Target for data replication

Replication Task

  • Is hosted by replication instance

  • Replicates data from endpoint

  • Replicates data to endpoint

Database

  • Is connected through endpoint



Lineage for Amazon DMS

Table 3.

Object

Lineage available

Relational Database

  • Sourced data from Relational Database

DynamoDB

  • Sourced data from Relational Database



Authentication supported

  • The Amazon DMS collector supports standard AWS client authentication methods. See the AWS documentation to learn more about AWS authentication methods.

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