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What does it take to migrate the databases behind 5 million small businesses without anyone noticing? Xero, the global cloud accounting platform, moved 900 SQL Server databases to Amazon RDS for SQL Server with near-zero downtime.

Migrating applications from SQL Server to an open-source compatible database can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Solutions such as the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) automate data and database schema migration, but there is often more work to do to migrate application code.

Amazon Aurora Global Database is designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each Region, and provides disaster recovery in the event of a Region-wide outage.

Amazon Aurora is a high-performance, highly scalable database service with MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. One of its key components is an innovative storage system that is optimized for database workloads and specifically designed to take advantage of modern cloud technology.

In this session, Shawn Bice, VP of databases, discusses the AWS purpose-built database strategy and explains why your application should drive the requirements for which database(s) to use, not the other way around. Learn about the purpose of each AWS database service and how AWS customers are using purpose-built databases to build some of the most scalable applications on the planet.