Category: Migration Solutions

In this post, we discuss how to perform a homogeneous migration from an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle. For our solution, we use a two-step approach to migrate the source database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. First, we use RMAN to restore the RMAN backup on an EC2 instance, then we use Data Pump to export data to Amazon S3 and restore that in the RDS for Oracle database.

One of the migration patterns that you can use to modernize and migrate mainframe workloads is automated refactoring using Blue Age tooling. This pattern often requires you to unlock mainframe data from on-premises databases (like IBM Db2 for iSeries) in order to be able to move to the cloud and the technical constraints and steps […]