AWS Databases

AWS Databases migrations

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Flexible ways to help you migrate databases to AWS

Largest network of migration partners, tools, and funding programs to help you achieve your migration goals.

Self-service migration

For self-service migrations, AWS offers AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) with schema conversion to help customers quickly and securely migrate their databases to AWS.

Professional services and partners

For those that prefer migration assistance, AWS Professional Services and certified partners from the AWS Partner Network can help you securely migrate databases of any size. Both 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 to the cloud.

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 (contact us) offers complementary advisory services to help customers migrate away from traditional commercial databases.

AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)

AWS 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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Experian Platform Operations

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

A+E Networks

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

Kevin Keeler

Principal of Cloud Innovation and Architecture

Samsung

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

Salva Jung

Principal Architect and Engineering Manager

Florida State Board of Administration

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

Decisiv

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

ProQuest

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

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