Migration Options with Amazon RDS Oracle
The options you have available when migrating to Amazon RDS for Oracle
Tony Mullen
Amazon Employee
Published Apr 10, 2024
As a RDS specialist solutions architect I get asked on a regular basis what is the best way to migrate to RDS for Oracle so i thought i would put together this article to share my experience, I will share some handy links to documentation and blogs to help you along the way.
Feature support for RDS Oracle - Its important to understand the feature support for RDS for Oracle, this page will show you all of the supported features for RDS Oracle.
Patterns to migrate to RDS Oracle - This page is AWS prescriptive guidance for a on-prem or EC2 migration to RDS for Oracle it discusses native tool migrations and the Database Migration Service.
Datapump and DMS migration - This blog details the steps to get a low downtime migration using datapump and the Database Migration Service.
Transportable Tablespaces - This blog steps through a migration to RDS for Oracle using the transportable feature of Oracle, this can be used for cross platform migrations.
Migration of a Database Link - This blog steps through the migration to RDS for Oracle over a database link, really useful if you want to migrate between RDS instances.
Blog on EFS mount for RDS Oracle - This blog discussed using and EFS mount for storing the export pumps for a migration.
Encryption Options for RDS for Oracle - This blog goes through the encryption options available in RDS for Oracle.
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