Migrating to and modernising towards open source databases on AWS | Session 2: Why refactor to an open source database (Aurora) and tools

For software and technology businesses, the ability to run thousands of database instances with multiple read replicas extremely cost effectively improves their long-term efficiency and decouples success from commercial license costs. In this session you will find out how Open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL have matured to be enterprise capable and how Amazon Aurora has enhanced the community engine to provide scalability, performance and availability of commercial database at 1/10th of cost. This session will also cover the tools and techniques to migrate your existing SQL Server or Oracle databases to AWS Aurora using AWS Database Migration Service.

Speaker: Rita Ladda, Senior Database Specialist, AWS