Migrate Oracle Database Workload To Cloud Re-host (Lift and Shift), Re-platform, Refactor

Migrate Oracle Database Workload To Cloud  Re-host (Lift and Shift), Re-platform, Refactor

When Migrating database and application to cloud, it is very important to keep in mind the business goals, application and database capabilities and cost of migration.

There are different strategies for different application and database migrations goals.

Re-host (Lift and Shift) - Oracle on EC2

-Same administration experience as on-premise   

-Full Control over the environment 

-All feature is available 

-All version is supported 

Re-platform - Oracle on RDS

-Optimized Architecture

-Database Install and Maintenance

-Automated Patching & Upgrade 

-Automated Backup 

-High Availability 

-OS Patching & Maintenance 

-Scaling

Refactor (Rearchitect) - Adopt Cloud Native Services

-Amazon Aurora

-Amazon Redshift

-PostgreSQL

-Other database engine 

-Eliminate Oracle Licensing Cost