Migrating data associated with SAS
We recommend that you move the data associated with your SAS applications to AWS. This migration has several benefits:
Gaining access to cloud-based data lakes and data warehouses
Increased agility, performance, security, and reliability
Lower costs
AWS offers a wide variety of services and tools to help you migrate your data sets, including SAS files, databases, machine images, block volumes, and even tape backups. The following table provides a list of services that you can use.
AWS service |
Description |
Role/skills required |
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Copies or replicates file system data to Amazon S3 or Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). |
AWS architect |
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Migrates running machine images with their data to Amazon EC2. |
AWS architect |
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Enables fast and secure transfers of data to Amazon S3 over long geographic distances. |
AWS architect |
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Migrates databases to AWS quickly and securely, with minimal downtime. |
AWS architect |
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Physically transports petabytes of data in batches to AWS. |
AWS architect |
