Migrating the Dinosaurs Bringing legacy Oracle DBs into AWS Nick Walter

Migrating the Dinosaurs - Bringing legacy Oracle DBs into AWS
Nick Walter
AWS Community Day Midwest 2023
AWS community
AWS hero
About the talk :
Cloud Migration is easy and fun for greenfield applications, but too many organizations have dinosaur (legacy) tech stacks that must be migrated as well. This talk focuses on the challenges, both technical and licensing, of trying to move legacy Oracle database backed application infrastructures to the AWS public cloud. Nick Walter, AWS Data Hero, will give practical tips on migration planning and architecture that are sure to be useful to anyone who finds themselves trying to herd dinosaurs into AWS.
Topics covered will include:
RDS vs EC2 for database workloads
Sizing and capacity planning
When to consider open-source database engine migration
Migration tools and data migration strategies
Oracle licensing strategies" RDS/EC2/EBS