We are pleased to announce the upcoming public preview availability of online migration in Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). Azure DMS represents a single service that you can use for migrating data from different database engines to Azure with built-in resiliency and robustness. Using online migrations, businesses can migrate their databases to Azure while the databases continue to be operational. This means that migrations can be completed with minimum downtime for critical applications, limiting the impact to service level availability and inconvenience their end customers.
Later in September, customers will be able to use online migrations of on-premises/VM PostgreSQL workloads to Azure Database for PostgreSQL in the following regions:
- West Europe
- East US2
- Central US
Note: Support for online migrations will soon be extended to a broader range of regions.
Until the release of this exciting new feature, please refer to the existing online migration resources below for additional details.
- Tutorial: Migrating from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database online migration
- Tutorial: Migrating from MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL online migration
- How to monitor an online migration
Sign in to the Azure portal and set up an instance of DMS for free. We are constantly adding new database source/target pairs to DMS. Stay up-to-date on #AzureDMS news and follow us on Twitter (@Data_Migrations). Join the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) Preview Yammer group, and give us feedback via User Voice or email by contacting us at dmsfeedback@microsoft.com. Also be sure to check out the Azure Database Migration Guide for information about how to migrate other source/target pairs.