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Thanks for all the info. Is your On Amazon DB on RDS?

We use Postgres so it might be that we couldn't do the same. Presently I run the DB on EC2 instance(s) but one day I'm sure I'll switch to RDS. Just trying to understand what an exit strategy might look like in the future.

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Yes we are running a mySQL 5.6 Database on RDS.

If the Database you want to migrate/replicate from is running on Amazon you should be able to make it a replication source.

I saw nothing that stated the database HAD to be on RDS. You use the servers address to setup the endpoints. And provide a database username and password to connect with so it should be doable.

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