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<fullname>Amazon Web Services Application Discovery Service</fullname> <p>Amazon Web Services Application Discovery Service (Application Discovery Service) helps you plan application migration projects. It automatically identifies servers, virtual machines (VMs), and network dependencies in your on-premises data centers. For more information, see the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/faqs/">Amazon Web Services Application Discovery Service FAQ</a>. </p> <p>Application Discovery Service offers three ways of performing discovery and collecting data about your on-premises servers:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <b>Agentless discovery</b> using Amazon Web Services Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (Agentless Collector), which doesn't require you to install an agent on each host.</p> <ul> <li> <p>Agentless Collector gathers server information regardless of the operating systems, which minimizes the time required for initial on-premises infrastructure assessment.</p> </li> <li> <p>Agentless Collector doesn't collect information about network dependencies, only agent-based discovery collects that information. </p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li> <p> <b>Agent-based discovery</b> using the Amazon Web Services Application Discovery Agent (Application Discovery Agent) collects a richer set of data than agentless discovery, which you install on one or more hosts in your data center.</p> <ul> <li> <p> The agent captures infrastructure and application information, including an inventory of running processes, system performance information, resource utilization, and network dependencies.</p> </li> <li> <p>The information collected by agents is secured at rest and in transit to the Application Discovery Service database in the Amazon Web Services cloud. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/application-discovery/latest/userguide/discovery-agent.html">Amazon Web Services Application Discovery Agent</a>.</p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul