Author: Mircea Bud, Alexandra Munteanu, and Daniel Urzica

In 2023, Tradeshift migrated one of its core PostgreSQL databases from self-managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. The decision followed mounting operational risks and performance limits that made the existing setup increasingly unsustainable. Tradeshift needed a managed solution that could reduce downtime risk, improve observability, and simplify ongoing operations. Amazon RDS met those requirements. In this post, we explain why we migrated to Amazon RDS, how we executed the migration, and highlight the invaluable benefits it delivered in terms of safety, flexibility, and audit compliance.