Introduction Recently I have been asked whether AWS RDS for Oracle provides a solid disaster recovery solution using Read Replicas based on Oracle Active Data Guard. Oracle (Active) Data Guard is undoubtedly Oracle’s most comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution for Oracle Database. However, whenever I read or hear “RDS”, the next word that…
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10+ Reasons why AWS RDS is not an option for Oracle Database High Availability
Introduction AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) provides a managed service for several database engines, including Oracle. It offers automation for administration tasks like provisioning, patching, and backup. Hence, it is often compared to Oracle Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure. However, the differences are tremendous, especially (and not only) regarding database high availability. This is…
AWS RDS for Oracle to Autonomous Database using Zero Downtime Migration
Introduction Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) provides great automation capabilities to migrate your Oracle Database to Oracle Cloud. After supporting Linux-based platforms, the new version 21.2 also supports cross-platform and even cross-cloud migrations. With this enhancement, now it’s possible to migrate an AWS RDS for Oracle to Oracle Autonomous Database using the offline logical migration method…
Part 9/10: Migrating Oracle Databases from AWS to Oracle Cloud
In previous parts, we discussed how to move Oracle databases from on-premise to Oracle Cloud. In this part, we will deal with migrating Oracle databases running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Oracle cloud. Why to move to the Oracle cloud? Have a look at part 1 highlighting the benefits of the Oracle cloud. Summarized in one…