[craigkerstiens]

DMS under the covers is another tool. The Postgres support for it lags pretty well and is mostly and after thought. It's much better to try to leverage something more native, either the WAL or if on a more modern version take advantage of logical replication.

For coming off Heroku DMS isn't going to work cause you don't have a replication slot, so your only approach is wal-e, or maybe wal-g?

Fast cloning is one nice feature for sure of Aurora, but when you go into Aurora you're starting to deviate more and more from native Postgres. Fast cloning can definitely be done one without Aurora. We're working on bringing our ability on Crunchy Bridge down to a few minutes similar to Aurora, while still being 100% Postgres. Not there yet, but suspect we're a few months away.