E-BOOK

REASONS TOMIGRATE YOURDATABASE TO THE CLOUD

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PAGE 1 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 REDUCED COST

PAGE 3 IMPROVED BUSINESS CONTINUITY

PAGE 4 SUPPORTS BUSINESS GROWTH

TABLE OFCONTENTS

The pace of cloud adoption has been increasing with custom applications and business critical packaged applications being moved to the cloud. Databases and data warehouses have often remained on-premises but now many IT departments are looking into database as a service (DBaaS) in the cloud. Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of an open source cloud solution. This ebook will examine the benefits of migrating an on-premises database to a scalable, reliable and self-healing relational database in the cloud.

INTRODUCTION

1Traditional on-premises databases can be expensive to deploy and maintain. Significant hardware infrastructure is required along with costly software licenses. Once implemented, the database and underlying infrastructure require maintenance and management to ensure business continuity. The software has to be patched and upgraded, backups need to be scheduled and performance issues need to be addressed.

With your database in the cloud, using a service such as Amazon RDS for Aurora, costs are signifi-cantly reduced. As an open source solution, software license costs are greatly reduced (by up to 90%) and you only pay for the hardware infrastructure you use, you no longer have to provision hardware to support peak demand levels.

REDUCED COST

2With Database as a Service (DBaaS) there are many business continuity improvements over on-premises database solutions. High Availability (more than 99.99%) is achieved with rapid failover if any problems occur. The cloud infrastructure also enables rapid scalability to support peak demand without any reduction in performance. AWS can balance the workload to run applications in cloud regions closest to the users so as to boost performance.

Amazon Web Services also provides infrastructure security with data encryption, multiple security certifications as well as proprietary tools to ensure database security.

IMPROVEDBUSINESS CONTINUITY

3Developing applications that are based on Amazon RDS for Aurora can enable growth by ensuring that your applications can scale to meet demand and always be available, however many users are access-ing them. For any transactional application (like a website for customers making purchases), automatic scalability can avoid denial of service which sometimes occur with on-premises solutions that exceed the maximum number of simultaneous users.

Migration from an on-premises database to the cloud can be complex but Amazon has developed tools that simplify the data migration and the code migration and Apps Associates has engineered services that accelerate this migration.

Ongoing database maintenance is also reduced by as much as 75%, freeing up valuable DBAs to add more value to your business, working on solutions to accelerate business growth.

SUPPORTSBUSINESS GROWTH

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