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Detect CDC failures faster with AWS DMS

calendar_today August 5, 2026 person Aritra Biswas domain amazon-dms

AWS DMS uses exponential backoff for recoverable errors, and default settings can let a change data capture (CDC) task retry silently for up to 30 minutes before failing. This post shows how to tune four recoverable-error settings so CDC tasks fail within minutes, and how to pair them with Amazon EventBridge and Amazon CloudWatch alerts.

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