On May 20, 2026, AWS ended support for DMS Fleet Advisor.

Fleet Advisor answered a question every migration team asks first: what is actually in my database estate, and how hard will it be to move? It was free. It was fully managed. It was backed by the largest cloud provider on earth.

It still lost.

AWS's official notice says only: "After careful consideration, we decided to end support for AWS DMS Fleet Advisor." No reason given. But you don't need one — the documentation tells you. Here is what Fleet Advisor required before it would tell you a single thing about your databases:

Install a standalone data collector in your local environment