Running a DMS task via SCT
SCT and DMS can work together to handle both schema conversion and data migration. Using a data extraction agent, SCT allows you to monitor and control DMS jobs via the SCT interface. To do this, you must configure an AWS service profile to use, which requires an AWS Access Key and an AWS Secret Key for a user who has permissions to create DMS tasks. Once that profile has been added, SCT will be able to create DMS tasks for you. The SCT DMS interface can only work with tasks and cannot create endpoints or replication instances, so these will need to be configured before you try to migrate. The following screenshot shows the Global settings view, which appears when you have correctly configured an AWS Access Key and profile:
To use DMS within SCT, you need to install a data extraction agent. This agent can also be used for complex SCT migrations, such as from Apache...