Migration Of MS SQL From Azure VM TO Amazon RDS

Overview

Recently I am working with the client using Azure Cloud for their application and the microsoft SQL server is hosting on a virtual machine so they found the need to migrate the application from Azure to AWS due to some amazing features and services of it which would be very helpful to enhance the app & it’s functionalities.

So in order to do that my client decided to migrate the Database from VM to Amazon RDS in order to release the burden of its management along with all related tasks too, since it’s quite difficult to manage a database on a VM & on the other hand as Amazon RDS is a fully managed service & a better platform for running relational databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In this article we will do the hands on of migrating Microsoft SQL server from Azure VM to Amazon RDS by using AWS Database Migration Service with minimal downtime.

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