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AWS CloudFormation and AWS DMS endpoint

AWS CloudFormation is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution that allows us to design and manage AWS resources as code.

We can use CloudFormation templates to specify the needed infrastructure in a JSON or YAML file. We can do thsi instead of manually generating and setting up the resources.

AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) is a service that assists you in swiftly and securely migrating the databases to AWS.

We can use DMS to transfer data from on premises databases, other cloud providers, or alternative database engines to AWS. DMS is compatible with a wide range of source and target databases. This includes Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and others.

In DMS, an endpoint is the connecting point for the source or target database. Endpoints that represent the source and target databases are specified when we build a DMS replication instance.

Endpoints include the information needed to connect, such as the database name, server name, port number, and credentials.

Using AWS CloudFormation to create a DMS endpoint

We define the endpoint settings as part of the CloudFormation template when we setup a DMS endpoint with CloudFormation.

This provides the database engine, server name, port number, database name. This will also provide the credentials to connect to the source or destination database.

We can manage the DMS resources as code with the rest of the infrastructure by using CloudFormation to create DMS endpoints.

We can easily version control the templates, test them in a staging environment, and deploy them to different regions or accounts.

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Conclusion

To sum up we have now seen how to using AWS CloudFormation to create a DMS endpoint with the support of our tech team.