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Save time and cost by migrating to fully managed databases

Managing databases to run at scale with high availability and reliability is difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Explore the AWS portfolio of fully managed, high performance, and cost-effective databases and learn about migrating to the AWS cloud.

Save time and cost by migrating to fully managed databases

Managing databases to run at scale with high availability and reliability is difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Explore the AWS portfolio of fully managed, high performance, and cost-effective databases and learn about migrating to the AWS cloud.
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Save time and cost by migrating to fully managed databases

Managing databases to run at scale with high availability and reliability is difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Explore the AWS portfolio of fully managed, high performance, and cost-effective databases and learn about migrating to the AWS cloud.

Benefits

Performance at scale

AWS purpose-built database solutions are designed for fast, interactive query performance at any scale. Experience 3-5x the performance vs popular alternatives with capabilities to support over 20 million requests per second.

Fully managed

Our fully managed services allow you to break free from the complexities of database and data warehouse administration. Serverless capabilities automatically scale throughput up or down based on demand.

Cost effective

AWS database solutions provide the security, availability, and reliability of commercial-grade databases at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases.

Reliable

AWS databases are built for business critical workloads. Build scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise applications while your data is safeguarded behind the AWS infrastructure in highly secure data centers.

Flexible ways to help you migrate databases to AWS

Self-Service Migration

For self-service migrations, AWS offers AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) to enable customers to quickly and securely migrate their databases to AWS.

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Professional Services and Partners

For customers that prefer migration assistance, AWS Professional Services and certified migration partners can help enterprise customers migrate applications and legacy infrastructure to AWS securely.

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Database Migration Programs

Database Freedom is a unique AWS program designed to assist customers with their migration to AWS database and analytics services through advice, migration support, and financial assistance. Additionally, Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (DMA) offers complementary advisory services to help customers migrate away from traditional commercial databases and analytics systems. 

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More migration assistance

Database Freedom Workshop

Database Freedom workshops are virtual sessions that enable you to make informed application design decisions and choose appropriate tools to support your modernization journey. Use the workshops to identify certain workloads as proof of concept projects.

AWS Migration Acceleration Program

AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is designed to provide consulting support, training and services credits to reduce the risk of migrating to the cloud, build a strong operational foundation, and help offset the initial cost of migrations.

Common migration paths and resources

From Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon Aurora

Migrate from SQL Server to Aurora MySQL
Migrate from SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL
Migrate from Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Migrate from Oracle to Amazon Aurora MySQL

From Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon RDS

Migrate from Oracle to RDS for Oracle 
Migrate from SQL Server to RDS for SQL Server
Migrate from Oracle to RDS PostgreSQL
IDC: Drive efficiency with Amazon RDS

From Apache Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB

Migrate Apache Cassandra databases to Amazon DynamoDB

From MongoDB to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Migrate MongoDB Databases to Amazon DocumentDB

From Apache Cassandra to Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Getting started with Amazon Keyspaces

From Netezza and Teradata to Amazon Redshift

Migrate your Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift
Migrate a Teradata database to Amazon Redshift

Migration customers

More organizations run their databases and data warehouses on AWS than any other cloud service. Customers like Samsung, Experian, NASDAQ, Verizon, TIBCO, Expedia, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Snapchat, and Tinder run their business critical database workloads on AWS.

Certified partners from the AWS Partner Network can help you with migrating your databases and data warehouses to AWS. AWS partners offer a wide range of migration services and use proven best practices and resources, to provide migration support that reduces the time and barriers of moving your databases and data warehouses to the cloud. Learn more »

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