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Aravind Hariharaputran

Author: Aravind Hariharaputran

Aravind Hariharaputran is Database Consultant with the Professional Services team at Amazon Web Services. He is passionate about databases in general with Microsoft SQL Server as his specialty. He helps build technical solutions that assist customers to migrate and optimize their on-premises database workload to the AWS Cloud. He enjoys spending time with family and playing cricket.

Upgrade Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2014 to a newer supported version using the AWS CLI

As SQL Server 2014 approaches its end of support on July 9, 2024, it’s crucial to understand your options and take a proactive approach in planning and upgrading your SQL Server databases to the latest version. In this post we show you how to leverage AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) automation to upgrade your current RDS for SQL Server 2014 instance to a more recent supported version.

Continuously replicate Amazon DynamoDB changes to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS Lambda

April, 2026: Aurora Serverless v2 has been renamed Aurora serverless. No action required. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with […]

Migrate on-premises SQL Server workloads to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using distributed availability groups

In this post, we provide a SQL Server Always On cluster database migration pattern solution to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server using distributed availability groups. This solution helps reduce the migration downtime through continuous data synchronization combined with a failover process. This post is not a high availability and disaster […]

Migrate an on-premises SQL Server standalone workload to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using domain-independent, Always On availability groups

There are different strategies you can leverage to migrate an on-premises SQL Server workload to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. All of them come with pros and cons. The following are some high-level migration challenges that you may encounter during your analysis and implementation phase: Lift and shift (backup and […]