AWS Database Blog
Author: Wendy Neu
Categorizing and Prioritizing a Large-Scale Move to an Open Source Database
July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) are tools that help facilitate and simplify migrating your commercial database to a variety of engines on Amazon RDS. AWS SCT specifically helps simplify proprietary database migrations to open source. It does this by automatically […]
Migrate Your Procedural SQL Code with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool
Database administrators and developers rely on relational databases to store data for applications. As Forbes noted in 2016, the development of open source offerings for database management systems like PostgreSQL is causing a growing number of enterprises to migrate to lower-cost solutions for their data storage. The move to the cloud often provides an excellent […]
Use SQL to map users, roles, and grants from Oracle to PostgreSQL
July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Many customers are undertaking the journey to open source relational database management system (RDBMS) databases. With the latest release of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT), it’s easy to change your database engine. AWS SCT makes heterogeneous database migrations easier by automatically converting procedural code from […]
Configuring the AWS Schema Conversion Tool
May 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) is a project-style Java application that can be installed on a local computer or an Amazon EC2 instance. The tool can be downloaded from AWS and is supported on MS Windows, Mac OSX, and Ubuntu and Fedora Linux. […]