Building database freedom at Amazon.com
Amazon.com migrated thousands of Oracle databases to AWS database services as part of a multiyear modernization initiative, reducing operational complexity while improving performance and cost efficiency across critical workloads.
Amazon.com had thousands of Oracle databases across teams, creating significant administration, provisioning, capacity-planning, and licensing overhead at enormous scale.
Amazon moved workloads to purpose-built AWS services including DynamoDB, Aurora, RDS, and S3, supported by AWS Database Migration Service and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool.
Amazon.com migrated 5,000 databases from Oracle to AWS, cutting annual database operating costs by more than half and reducing latency for most critical services by 40 percent.