Category: Migration & Transfer Services

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) are tools that help facilitate and simplify migrating your commercial database to a variety of engines on Amazon RDS. AWS SCT specifically helps simplify proprietary database migrations to open source. It does this by automatically […]

David Gardner is a solutions architect and Pratim Das is a specialist solutions architect for Analytics at Amazon Web Services. Teradata provides long-standing data warehouse solutions, with many customers and applications running on its platforms. As companies migrate to the cloud, they are using Amazon Redshift as part of their cloud adoption. Recently AWS announced […]

In another blog post, we described how to use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool data extractors (AWS SCT data extractors) to migrate your legacy data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using your existing business […]

Ilia Gilderman is a senior software development manager at Amazon Web Services. Only five months have passed since our most recent post, in March 2017, about the momentum of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). So far, we’ve watched our customers migrating over 35,000 unique databases to AWS using AWS DMS. Here is a quick […]

David Rader is the vice president of engineering 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. In a previous post, we covered the overall approach you can take to migrate your current […]

This blog post gives you a quick overview of how you can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) data extractors to migrate your existing data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence […]

Sandeep Kariro is a big data architect and Akm Raziul is a database architect at Amazon Web Services. Enterprises have been using closed-source database systems for more than four decades. Managing data with these systems has been a critical part of running a successful business in every organization. You have to make a considerable investment […]

Akm Raziul Islam is a database architect at Amazon Web Services. You can use AWS Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) to copy data from multiple schemas in an Oracle source to a single Amazon RDS for Oracle target. You can also migrate data to different schemas on a target. But to do this, you need […]

Knievel Co is a database engineer at Amazon Web Services. This blog post provides an overview on how you can migrate your Oracle database to PostgreSQL. The two biggest parts of a database migration are the schema conversion and the data replication. We go over how to use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) […]

Jeff Levine is a solutions architect for Amazon Web Services. The AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) supports Amazon S3 as a migration target. The services enable you to extract information from any database supported by DMS and write it to Amazon S3 in a format that can be used by almost any application. You can extract the entire […]