Migration and Transfer
AWS Application Discovery Service
Discovery inventory used to assess servers and dependencies before migration planning.
Key points
- Application Discovery Service inventories on-premises servers, utilization, and dependencies before migration planning.
- Discovery evidence helps group workloads and choose a migration approach; it does not migrate the servers.
Best-known use cases
- Inventory on-premises servers and databases before migration planning.
- Analyze utilization and dependency data to group migration workloads.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Application Discovery Service assesses the estate, while Application Migration Service performs server replication and launch.
Key takeaway
Choose Application Discovery Service to build an evidence-based inventory and dependency view before migration.
Relevant exam tasks
- D2.1 — Task 2.1: Choose a data store
- 2.1.4 — Integrate migration tools into data processing systems (for example, AWS Transfer Family).