AWS Database Migration Service alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of AWS Database Migration Service, shown against it.

AWS Database Migration Service Debezium Qlik Replicate Striim
Vendor Amazon Web Services Red Hat / Debezium Community Qlik Striim, Inc.
Pricing model Usage-based Open source + paid options Quote only Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes Yes No Yes
Deployment Cloud Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No Yes (Apache-2.0) No No
Best for AWS-native teams needing managed database migration or CDC replication without operating dedicated infrastructure. Engineering teams already running Kafka who need reliable, low-latency database change streams. Enterprises migrating or replicating from legacy/mainframe databases with strict low-impact requirements. Enterprises needing real-time CDC from legacy or mainframe databases with in-flight processing.
Pricing

Billed hourly for provisioned replication instances, or per Data Capacity Unit-hour for DMS Serverless; Free Tier and sign-up credits available for new usage.

Instance-based Hourly, by instance class (e.g. T2/T3/C5/R5/R6i)
DMS Serverless Billed per Data Capacity Unit-hour (1 DCU = 2GB RAM)
Free Tier 750 hours/month of dms.t3.micro (Single-AZ) for 12 months

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Free and open source with no vendor pricing page; commercial support is available through Red Hat as part of other product subscriptions.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Sold as part of Qlik's Data Integration editions, metered by data volume moved, job executions and execution duration; no public price list.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Free Developer edition up to 25 million events/month; Striim Cloud is pay-for-data-moved and Striim Platform is self-hosted, both quote-based.

Striim Developer $0/month
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Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Log-based CDC replication
  • One-time homogeneous and heterogeneous migration
  • Serverless, autoscaling capacity option
  • Schema conversion tool (AWS SC) included at no charge
  • Broad source/target database support
  • Native integration with AWS IAM and networking
  • Log-based CDC connectors for major databases
  • Kafka Connect source connector framework
  • Consistent initial snapshot plus streaming
  • Debezium Server for Kafka-free targets
  • Schema change event tracking
  • Exactly-once delivery semantics (with supported configurations)
  • Log-based, low-impact CDC
  • Agentless connectivity for many source databases
  • Mainframe and legacy database support
  • GUI-driven replication task setup
  • Bulk load plus continuous replication
  • Real-time monitoring of replication tasks
  • Log-based CDC from enterprise and mainframe databases
  • In-flight SQL-based stream processing (TQL)
  • Built-in data validation and reconciliation
  • Real-time monitoring dashboards
  • Delivery to cloud warehouses and Kafka
  • Self-hosted and managed cloud deployment options

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