Doug Booth

Thomson Reuters and BMC Software are leaders in the financial and ISV industries. In this session, learn why they chose Amazon Aurora and the Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (DMA) to accelerate their migration and modernization strategies.

Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (DMA) accelerates database and analytics (DB&A) workload migrations to AWS with hands-on-keyboard service. In this session, learn about the specialized DMA team, the three migration pillars they deliver, migration tools and patterns, migration steps, when/how to engage with the team, and how the DMA team is accelerating DB&A migrations to AWS.

In this chalk talk, learn how Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (Amazon DMA) delivers expert migration resources from AWS to accelerate the migration journey. Amazon DMA can migrate custom-built applications on Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora (either MySQL-Compatible or PostreSQL-Compatible Edition) at a flat rate delivered by AWS.

Amazon.com migrated its enterprise data warehouse—hundreds of thousands of daily jobs running in one of the world's largest Oracle data warehouses—to a scalable, AWS-based data lake in less than two years. In this session, we dive into the architecture of Amazon.com's data lake and how it leveraged Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR.

Amazon.com has a long history in data. To reduce scaling risks and third-party dependencies it chose AWS database services like Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).