Database Migration Service (DMS)
When you’re migrating open source relational databases
Serverless, easy, minimal downtime migrations to Cloud SQL
BigQuery Data Transfer Service
Automate scheduled data movement into BigQuery using a fully managed data import service
Migrate for Compute Engine
Formally called Velostrata
Used when migrating VMs
Migrate (lift and shift) servers and VMs from on-premises or another cloud to Compute Engine with minor automatic modifications
- Continuously Replicate disk data from source VMs to GCP
- No downtime on the source via transfer
- Quickly clone and test migrated VM test clones
- Easily perform all the tasks within the Google Cloud Console
Migrate for Anthos (and GKE)
Used when migrating containers
Migrate VMs from on-premises or other clouds directly into containers in GKE and Anthos
Allows to use auto-generated container artifacts
Migrate for Anthos is offered at no charge and no Anthos subscription is required (Charges for compute, storage, network, etc of GCP still apply)
Storage Transfer Service
When you are migrating storage data
Transfer data between loud storage services such as AWS S3 and Cloud Storage
- Move or backup data from other cloud storage providers or from your on-premises storage
- Move data from one Cloud Storage bucket to another (Cross region replication)
- Periodically move data as part of a data processing pipeline or analytical workflow
Transfer Appliance
When you have TBs of data, and its faster to ship physical drives
Ship large volumes of data to Google Cloud using rackable storage
Comes in two drive configurations 100 TB and 480 TB
Transfer Appliance can be mounted as an NFS volume
When to use Transfer Appliance:
- The data size should be at least 10TB
- It will take more than 1 week to upload data over the network