AWS Database Blog
Author: InduTeja Aligeti
InduTeja Aligeti is a Lead Database Consultant at AWS. She has 16+years of experience working with Microsoft Technologies with a specialization in SQL Server. She focuses on helping customers to build high-available, cost-effective database solutions and migrate their large scale SQL Server databases to AWS.
How an AWS customer in the learning services industry migrated and modernized SAP ASE to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
In this post, we explore how a leading AWS customer in the learning services industry successfully modernized its legacy SAP ASE environment by migrating to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Partnering with AWS, the customer engineered a comprehensive migration strategy to transition from a proprietary system to an open source database while providing high availability, performance optimization, and cost-efficiency.
Migrate logins, database roles, users, and object-level permissions from Azure SQL Database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
In this post, we demonstrate how to migrate SQL logins, database roles, users, and object-level permissions from Azure SQL Database to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server using T-SQL. Within SQL Server, a SQL login acts as a security principal, allowing a user or application to connect to a SQL Server instance. […]
Migrate Microsoft SQL Server SSIS Packages to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) provides a platform for users to create, extract, transform, and load workflows by connecting to various data sources like relational database management services, flat files, XML files, and more. Before loading into the destination system, users can copy, cleanse, and process the data. SSIS allows developers to create extract, […]
Migrate from a Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn read-only replica to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with AWS DMS
Customers are opting to replicate their critical workloads to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition for ease of use, minimal operational overhead and the ability to break free from commercial licenses. In this post, we explain the high-level steps to migrate data from a highly available on-premises Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn secondary read-only database to Amazon Aurora […]
Migrate SQL Server databases in Azure to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using backup and bacpac files and Amazon S3
In this post we show you how to migrate from Azure to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. using the native backup and restore method. We also dive deep into the data-tier application backup package file. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and […]
Migrate SQL Server databases from an Azure SQL database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server using bacpac method
April 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Customers choose Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server because it manages time-consuming database administration tasks including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling. With Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you can enable single-click high availability by enabling the Multi-AZ flag in […]