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Russell Swanson

Author: Russell Swanson

Migrating Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Amazon Aurora using seeded logical replication

In this post, we show you how to migrate from an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition using seeded logical replication. For live migrations with minimal downtime, AWS provides several approaches, including Aurora read replicas, the snapshot/restore method combined with ongoing replication, and AWS DMS.