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Exporting to parquet has existed for a bit for AWS RDS (via AWS Data Migration Service), but this should make doing so more straightforward (since it doesn't require managing any DMS compute).

AWS DMS also supports incrementals (using the change-data-capture features in the DB).

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Hmm, I wonder why they didn't push people towards DMS instead? This S3 export offering certainly commands a premium price for the privilege.

I just wish DMS supported real-time data synchronization for utf8mb4 on MySQL... That really destroyed my workflow with errors when I moved to utf8mb4 (requirement) and then had to stop using DMS altogether. It’s pretty much the only thing I used from that services.

There are a number of unfortunate shortcomings depending on what your DMS source/target are. Another that bit us was (the lack of) support for JSON types in MySQL sources.

Was there no option to add a transformation to your DMS routine to handle that?

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