Category: AWS Schema Conversion Tool

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 […]

David Gardner is a solutions architect and Pratim Das is a specialist solutions architect for Analytics at Amazon Web Services. Teradata provides long-standing data warehouse solutions, with many customers and applications running on its platforms. As companies migrate to the cloud, they are using Amazon Redshift as part of their cloud adoption. Recently AWS announced […]

In another blog post, we described how to use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool data extractors (AWS SCT data extractors) to migrate your legacy data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using your existing business […]

This blog post gives you a quick overview of how you can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) data extractors to migrate your existing data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence […]

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 […]

Shree Kenghe is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services. This blog post gives you a quick overview of how you can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to help you migrate your existing Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully […]

We are pleased to announce the recent release of version 1.0.602 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). The new version includes a new key capability—data migration agents that extract data from Oracle, MS SQL Server, Teradata, IBM Netezza, Greenplum and HPE Vertica data warehouses, prepare, optimize and upload it to Amazon Redshift. The […]

We are pleased to announce the recent release of version 1.0.502 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). Two key capabilities included with this release are the use of Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility as a target and integration with AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility as a target […]

Prahlad Rao is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services. Customers often replicate databases hosted on-premises to the AWS Cloud as a means to migrate database workloads to AWS, or to enable continuous replication for database backup and disaster recovery. You can both migrate and perform continuous replication on the AWS Cloud with AWS Database […]

Today we are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.500 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). Since version 1.0.100 was released at re:Invent last year, the SCT has helped customers convert their schema and database objects from commercial engines to Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS) open-source, engine-based databases. Because customer obsession is one […]