Aurora Migration Toolkit

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Migrating a single database to Aurora is a project. Migrating fifty — including multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic — is a platform. This is the toolkit and methodology that made it repeatable.

Challenge

Each team’s database had different constraints: replication lag budgets, change-freeze windows, version skew between on-premises MySQL and Aurora, and applications that had grown assumptions about their database over a decade. One-off migration plans did not scale to fifty of them.

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Aurora Migration Toolkit

Challenge