AWS Databases

Database Migrations

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Benefits

Performance at scale

AWS purpose-built database solutions are designed for fast, interactive query performance at any scale. Experience 3–5x the performance compared to popular alternatives, with capabilities to support over 20 million requests per second.

Fully managed

Our fully managed services allow you to break free from the complexities of database and data warehouse administration. Serverless capabilities automatically scale throughput up or down based on demand.

Cost-effective

AWS database solutions provide the security, availability, and reliability of commercial-grade databases at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases.

Reliable

AWS databases are built for business-critical workloads. Build scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise applications while your data is safeguarded behind the AWS infrastructure in highly secure data centers.

Flexible ways to help you migrate databases to AWS

Self-service migration

For self-service migrations, AWS offers AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to help customers quickly and securely migrate their databases to AWS.

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Professional services and partners

For customers that prefer migration assistance, AWS Professional Services and certified migration partners can help enterprise customers securely migrate applications and legacy infrastructure to AWS.

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Database migration programs

Database Freedom is a unique AWS program designed to assist customers with their migration to AWS database and analytics services through advice, migration support, and financial assistance. Additionally, Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (DMA) offers complementary advisory services to help customers migrate away from traditional commercial databases and analytics systems.

Experian Platform Operations

Something that might’ve taken 60, 90 days in the past, to get servers configured and deployed, we could now do in a matter of hours, enabling our cloud and data engineers to focus on product innovation.

Jeff Scanlon

Senior Vice President

A+E Networks

Aurora enabled us to spin up simultaneous environments to speed up development cycles.

Kevin Keeler

Principal of Cloud Innovation and Architecture

Samsung

The scalability of Amazon Aurora is the best benefit—especially if we focus on the cost.

Salva Jung

Principal Architect and Engineering Manager

More migration assistance

Database Freedom workshop

Database Freedom workshops are virtual sessions that help you to make informed application design decisions and choose appropriate tools to support your modernization journey. Use the workshops to identify certain workloads as proof-of-concept projects.

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AWS Migration Acceleration Program

AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is designed to provide consulting support, training, and services credits to reduce the risk of migrating to the cloud, build a strong operational foundation, and help offset the initial cost of migrations.

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Common migration paths and resources

From Apache Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB

Migration Customers

More organizations run their databases and data warehouses on AWS than any other cloud service. Customers like Samsung, Experian, NASDAQ, Verizon, TIBCO, Expedia, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Snapchat, and Tinder run their business critical database workloads on AWS.

Florida State Board of Administration

In less than a month, the Oracle database solution was migrated to Amazon Aurora, realizing a 40% decrease in cost in their database licensing and support cost in addition to the infrastructure costs previously described.

Florida State Board of Administration

Decisiv

Thanks to Aurora, our migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL went more smoothly than we anticipated, and we are now well-positioned to rapidly scale.

Satish Joshi

CTO

ProQuest

We've gotten so many benefits from migrating our databases from Oracle to Aurora. There is high availability out of the box, lower cost, easier scaling for reads, and far less licensing complexity.

Suresh Karri

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