AWS Migration Service Receives Three Major Upgrades

AWS Migration Service has received three major upgrades, which should simplify and speed up the process of migrating applications to the public cloud environment. The updates introduce the new Global View feature, functionality for importing and exporting local disks, and four new post-launch actions.

Global View Feature

The Global View feature allows administrators to manage their migration projects across multiple accounts. The feature uses the AWS Organizations tool to create administrative accounts that in turn provide access to servers from multiple accounts and member accounts that only have access to their own source servers.
Administrators can perform various tasks related to migrations in this way, such as launching tests and cutover instances for multiple accounts and monitoring the progress of the migrations on these multiple accounts.

Import and Export CSV Files

The second major update is functionality for importing and exporting local disks. Source server inventory lists can be placed on the local disk from a CSV file. Conversely, the lists can be exported to a CSV file.

Post Launch Actions

Four new post-launch actions have now been added to AWS Migration Service. These actions are Configure Time Sync to set up the time for a Linux instance, Validate disk space to know how much disk space is available on the target server, and Verify HTTP(S) response. The latter checks connectivity against a predefined list of URLs. Finally, the Enable Amazon Inspector makes it possible to perform security scans on EC2 resources.
AWS Migration Service has received three major upgrades that should help simplify and speed up the process of migrating applications to the public cloud environment. The Global View feature allows administrators to manage their migration projects across multiple accounts, while the new functionality for importing and exporting local disks and four new post-launch actions provide additional tools to make the process easier.