After five months of testing and previewing, Amazon has launched its migration service for big companies.
In the past three to four years, Amazon Inc. has proved that it has all what it takes to dominate the e-commerce industry of the United States. An industry which was getting tougher and stiffer day by day due to intense domestic competition, the company came on top of all with its exceptional goods and services offerings along with decent loyalty programs to further cater the customers. However e-commerce is not the only domain the online retailer dominates in. It is believed that Amazon is also known as the powerhouse of the cloud computing industry.
According to various reputable sources, it was reported that the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos said in the first half of last year that its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, is a massive $5 billion business. The company is well known for not revealing its figures whether it is success or not, it does not exactly disclose its results. But the data compiled so far, it is known that Amazon has ‘numerous’ big name clients subscribed to its cloud service offering. Apart from that, AWS leads the cloud division of various tech giants including Google and Microsoft.
According to Venture Beat, the firm has come up with a new service which will allow the companies to shift their databases conveniently to Amazon’s own cloud computing division, AWS. And it claims that the companies who wish to do it can easily set up their migrations within 10 minutes.
The vice president of relational database services at AWS, Hal Berenson, said in a statement “Hundreds of customers moved more than a thousand of their on-premises databases to Amazon Aurora, other Amazon RDS engines, or databases running on Amazon EC2 during the preview of the AWS Database Migration Service.”
Five months ago, Amazon debut its AWS Database Migration Service in preview to show what it can do for the companies. For instance, there are many firms who wish to change their cloud service provider or are in need of an upgrade but the fear of losing database or creating and managing all over again stops them. But after five months of the first preview, Amazon is finally filling this loophole with its new service.
Mr. Hal Berenson added, “Customers repeatedly told us they wanted help moving their on-premises databases to AWS, and also moving to more open database engine options, but the response to the AWS Database Migration Service has been even stronger than we expected. In the preview, one-third of the database migrations used the AWS Database Migration Service to not only move databases to the AWS Cloud, but also to switch database engines in the process.”
Since the beginning of this year, Amazon reported that there are more than 1,000 databases that have been migrated to the AWS. It does not necessarily mean to move other cloud premise database to Amazon Web Services but companies who have saved huge data and databases on MariaDB, MySQL, and Oracle can migrate their databases to Amazon’s cloud segment.
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