In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating an on-prem database to a MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.

Test the application thoroughly to ensure it interacts correctly with the database. Conclusion Running MySQL on AWS has numerous benefits, including scalability, robustness, and improved performance.

Amazon Web Services has now made its database migration service available to all of its customers, after completing the migration of over 1,000 databases since the first day of 2016.

AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless and a new capability that makes it easier to migrate from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora.

“A very large percentage of MySQL HeatWave customers are AWS users who are migrating off Aurora,” said Nipun Agarwal (pictured), senior vice president of MySQL, Database and HeatWave at Oracle.