Oracle to Aurora Migration
Complete migration of core banking systems from Oracle Exadata to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with zero downtime.
- Challenge
- A major Southeast Asian bank needed to migrate their 15TB Oracle Exadata data warehouse to a more cost-effective cloud-native solution while maintaining 24/7 availability for critical banking operations.
- Solution
- We implemented a phased migration using AWS Database Migration Service with change data capture, creating parallel read replicas in Aurora PostgreSQL. Custom schema conversion tools handled complex PL/SQL to PL/pgSQL translation.
- Scope
- Migration of 200+ database objects, 50+ ETL processes, and integration with existing AWS infrastructure. Performance tuning and security hardening post-migration.
- Outcome
- 65% reduction in database licensing costs, 40% improvement in query performance for analytical workloads, and successful zero-downtime migration completed over 6 months.
- Technologies
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL AWS DMS Oracle Exadata AWS Lambda