AWS Database Blog

Category: Migration & Transfer Services

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 […]

How to Migrate Your Oracle Data Warehouse to Amazon Redshift Using AWS SCT and AWS DMS

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 […]

Migrating to PostgreSQL Lifecycle

This is a guest post by David Rader, the vice president of product development at OpenSCG. OpenSCG is an AWS Consulting Partner and a leading expert in PostgreSQL, helping customers migrate to, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL and other data platforms on-premises and in the cloud. There is a lot of interest these days in migrating […]

Set Up AWS DMS for Cross-Account Migration

Hemant Borole is a big data consultant at Amazon Web Services. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS easily and securely. AWS DMS supports homogenous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora. For customers who use […]

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 […]

Introducing Data Extractors in AWS Schema Conversion Tool Version 1.0.602

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 […]

Migrating Oracle Database from On-Premises or Amazon EC2 Instances to Amazon Redshift

Ballu Singh and Pubali Sen are solutions architects at Amazon Web Services. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS easily and securely. The AWS Database Migration Service can migrate your data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases. The service supports homogenous migrations such as Oracle to […]

Events and Notifications in AWS Database Migration Service

We’ve recently added a new feature in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)—the ability to receive DMS events notifications, such as email messages, text messages, or calls to HTTP endpoints, through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). You now can subscribe and receive notifications for two types of events—events related to DMS instances and events […]

Reduce Resource Consumption by Consolidating Your Sharded System into Aurora

Ed Murray is a manager at Amazon Web Services. When faced with the prospect of scaling your relational workload, you have generally had two options available: scale up or scale out. Scaling up is easy—just buy a bigger database host. Scaling out is more difficult. It requires you to shard your database into several physically […]

How to Migrate Your Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora

Ed Murray is a manager 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 facilitate and simplify migrating your commercial database to Amazon Aurora. In this case, we focus on migrating from […]