Database Migrations

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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.
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"The scalability of Amazon Aurora is the best benefit—especially if we focus on the cost.”

Salva Jung
Principal Architect and Engineering Manager

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"Something that might’ve taken 60, 90 days in the past, to get servers configured and deployed, we could now do in a matter of hours, enabling our cloud and data engineers to focus on product innovation."

Jeff Scanlon
Senior Vice President of Experian Platform Operations

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"Aurora enabled us to spin up simultaneous environments to speed up development cycles.”

Kevin Keeler
Principal of Cloud Innovation and Architecture, A+E Networks

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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.
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"The scalability of Amazon Aurora is the best benefit—especially if we focus on the cost.”

Salva Jung
Principal Architect and Engineering Manager

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"Something that might’ve taken 60, 90 days in the past, to get servers configured and deployed, we could now do in a matter of hours, enabling our cloud and data engineers to focus on product innovation."

Jeff Scanlon
Senior Vice President of Experian Platform Operations

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"Aurora enabled us to spin up simultaneous environments to speed up development cycles.”

Kevin Keeler
Principal of Cloud Innovation and Architecture, A+E Networks

Get started for Free

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.
Samsung_logo

"The scalability of Amazon Aurora is the best benefit—especially if we focus on the cost.”

Salva Jung
Principal Architect and Engineering Manager

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"Something that might’ve taken 60, 90 days in the past, to get servers configured and deployed, we could now do in a matter of hours, enabling our cloud and data engineers to focus on product innovation."

Jeff Scanlon
Senior Vice President of Experian Platform Operations

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"Aurora enabled us to spin up simultaneous environments to speed up development cycles.”

Kevin Keeler
Principal of Cloud Innovation and Architecture, A+E Networks

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) brings together migration tools and experts to help customers migrate away from traditional commercial databases at fixed prices. 

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More migration assistance

AWS Data Lab

AWS Data Lab offers accelerated, joint engineering engagements between customers and AWS technical resources to create tangible deliverables that accelerate data and analytics modernization initiatives.

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

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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

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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

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From Apache Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB

Migrate Apache Cassandra databases to Amazon DynamoDB

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From MongoDB to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Migrate MongoDB Databases to Amazon DocumentDB

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From Apache Cassandra to Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Getting started with Amazon Keyspaces

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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.

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“We've gotten so many benefits from migrating our databases from Oracle to Aurora. There is high availability out of the box, lower cost, easier scaling for reads, and far less licensing complexity."

- Suresh Karri
Directory of Technology, ProQuest

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"In less than a month, the Oracle database solution was migrated to Amazon Aurora, realizing a 40% decrease in cost in their database licensing and support cost in addition to the infrastructure costs previously described.”

- Florida State Board of Administration

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"Thanks to Aurora, our migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL went more smoothly than we anticipated, and we are now well-positioned to rapidly scale."

- Satish Joshi
CTO, Decisiv

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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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