Practice Test 3 | AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate | SAA-C03 | Dumps | Mock Test

Answer – A

VM Import/Export enables customers to import Virtual Machine (VM) images in order to create Amazon EC2 instances. Customers can also export previously imported EC2 instances to create VMs. Customers can use VM Import/Export to leverage their previous investments in building VMs by migrating their VMs to Amazon EC2.

For more information on AWS VM Import, please visit the URL:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/

Few strategies used for migration are:
1. Forklift migration strategy
2. Hybrid migration strategy
3. Creating AMIs

•  AWS Import/Export –  is a data transport service used to move large amounts of data into and out of the Amazon Web Services public cloud using portable storage devices for transport.
  •  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/05/20/AWS-Import-Export/

• AWS Storage Gateway –  connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless integration with data security features between your on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure. … The gateway provides access to objects in S3 as files or file share mount points.
  •  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/WhatIsStorageGateway.html

• DB Migration Service – can migrate your data to and from most of the widely used commercial and open source databases. It supports homogeneous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora.
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