Balance Cost and Performance when Migrating On-premises Oracle Databases to the Cloud
Although the cloud may have once looked like a fad, predictions of a $266.4 billion—and growing—market in public cloud services1 suggest the fad has become a business reality. The new frontier is to strike the right cost-performance balance so that cloud computing actually does save more money than it costs.
Shortly after you join the growing number of database administrators tasked with migrating on-premises Oracle databases to the cloud, you’ll confront several questions:
- Which cloud service is the best fit for your organization?
- Which of your Oracle databases is best suited for a migration to the cloud?
- How will you minimize downtime and avoid data loss during the migration?
- How will you monitor database performance and ensure scalability without blowing your budget?
- Do you have the tools to replicate Oracle data between on-premises infrastructure and the cloud?
- Perhaps most important, will you really lower your Oracle licensing costs and avoid platform lock-in to any single cloud provider?
This solution brief is designed to guide DBAs through the process of migrating an on-premises Oracle database to a cloud service such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)2, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
