We performed a comparison between AWS Database Migration Service and FME based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The fact that it's well-integrated into multiple targets that are good for different use cases is pretty good."
"The database migration services allow us to do real-time synchronization of on-premise and database to plan out our releases."
"The most valuable features of the AWS Database Migration Service are the ease of migration, beneficial storage system, security, and simple instance creation. Additionally, the cloud that is provided is more complete than other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Database Migration Service is it catches all the history changes, such as inset, observe, and delete. It tracks everything."
"We particularly like that this solution has the facility to integrate with all ETL tools."
"As the solution is on the cloud, we don't have to worry about the maintenance of software."
"For our simple requirement of migration, DMS is just a typical AWS RDS with an IPSec tunnel to Oracle. The most valuable features for us are the networking capabilities like VPCs and VPNs."
"Even if it does break down, it will automatically recover itself and resumes from where it stopped."
"It has standard plug-ins available for different data sources."
"We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else."
"All spatial features are unrivaled, and the possibility to execute them based on a scheduled trigger, manual, e-mail, Websocket, tweet, file/directory change or virtually any trigger is most valuable."
"It has a very friendly user interface. You don't need to use a lot of code. For us that's the most important aspect about it. Also, it has a lot of connectors and few forms. It has a strong facial aspect. It can do a lot of facial analysis."
"The most valuable feature of FME is the graphical user interface. There is nothing better. It is very easy to debug because you can see all steps where there are failures. Overall the software is easy to optimize a process."
"The names of the services need improvement since AWS doesn't indicate what the function of the product is presently. You need to read a lot to find the service that you want in the product."
"Whatever solution worked today can not be reused in the next migration."
"The server has limits on how many can connect to the database."
"It would be helpful if the bandwidth could be independent of the network or if we could have a dedicated bandwidth for this product."
"There are a set of complexities and challenges when a user wants to integrate AWS products with Microsoft products."
"The initial setup can be difficult for beginners in AWS Database Migration Service. You will need the training to complete it."
"The cost is a concern. We use DMS because of its simplicity, but the price could definitely be more competitive."
"I think that Amazon needs to improve the migration scenarios after analytics"
"FME can improve the geographical transformation. I've had some problems with the geographical transformations, but it's probably mostly because I'm not the most skilled geographer in-house. The solution requires some in-depth knowledge to perform some functions."
"Improvements could be made to mapping presentations."
"The one thing that always appears in the community is the ability to make really easy loops to loop through data efficiently. That needs to be added at some point."
"FME's price needs improvement for the African market."
"To get a higher rating, it would have to improve the price and the associated scalability. These are the main issues."
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AWS Database Migration Service is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Integration with 27 reviews while FME is ranked 25th in Data Integration with 5 reviews. AWS Database Migration Service is rated 7.8, while FME is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Database Migration Service writes "A cloud solution for live replication but has stability issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FME writes "Great for handling large volumes of data, but it is priced a bit high". AWS Database Migration Service is most compared with AWS Glue, Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Fivetran and Confluent, whereas FME is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Alteryx Designer, Talend Open Studio, SSIS and Informatica PowerCenter. See our AWS Database Migration Service vs. FME report.
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