Benefit from leveraging the Ispirer top-notch automated solutions. Move your problematic databases to hassle-free ones to improve your IT infrastructure's cost and performance and encourage migration. Choose your migration direction and learn more about the services and products offered by Ispirer Systems.
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Unlock the power of Amazon Aurora
Want to move your problematic databases to a modern Amazon Aurora cloud-based solution without downtime? It's a strategic decision that can help you improve your IT infrastructure's cost and performance. Take advantage of the Ispirer's top-notch automated solutions for Aurora migration. At your service are free automated complexity assessments for planning, code conversion tools, and more. Choose where you're migrating from (source database) and Aurora database edition (target database), and learn what the Ispirer toolkit can do for your case!
No downtime. No headaches.
Where do you begin? Choose your brand new Aurora engine
Amazon Aurora offers two world-class database engines, MySQL and PostgreSQL, so you can select the perfect fit to modernize your infrastructure with unmatched performance and reliability.
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Amazon Aurora MySQL database
Experience up to 5X the throughput of standard MySQL. This is the ideal choice for scaling your existing database and apps, getting a massive performance upgrade, and still staying within the familiar and trusted environment with Amazon Aurora MySQL.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database
Tackle your most complex workloads with up to 3X the throughput of standard PostgreSQL. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL delivers the enterprise-grade features required for demanding analytics, complex queries, and large-scale enterprise applications.
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Next, assess the complexity before migrating data
Avoid surprises and make rational data-backed decisions from day one with Ispirer's free assessment tool, InsightWays. It will give you a comprehensive automated assessment of your source database and a transparent view of the path to Aurora MySQL or PostgreSQL
The four things you can do with InsightWays before migrating data:
Define your Aurora data migration scope
Uncover potential issues
Assess key database parameters
Estimate project cost and duration
Define your Aurora data migration scope
InsightWays automatically analyzes your existing database to quantify its size and complexity. It catalogs every object, table, and line of code, so you get a complete inventory for accurate planning.
Uncover potential issues
With InsightWays, you can identify potential conversion challenges and incompatibilities between your existing database and AWS Aurora. This way, you can address complexities before they become roadblocks and lead to downtime.
Assess key database parameters
Get a detailed report on the vital parameters of your database. Understand your current environment's intricacies to ensure the target Aurora database is configured for optimal performance and compatibility.
Estimate project cost and duration
Armed with this assessment report, you can forecast the time, effort, and investment required for your migration project. Eliminate guesswork and build a reliable business case for your AWS Aurora migration!
What happens next?
Migration execution, review, and testing
With your detailed assessment report in hand, the next step is the technical conversion of your database. SQLWays will transform your source database's structure and logic to be compatible with your chosen Aurora engine
You get:
Your final migration stages: data migration and cutover
After your new Aurora database structure and logic have been converted and tested, you're ready for the final steps to complete your modernization journey.
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Let's plan your Aurora migration project together
We are here to help you figure out the resources and tools you need to land on the AWS Aurora cloud.
Inside Ispirer Toolkit for Amazon Aurora move
Free migration assessment, code conversion, business logic transfer, and more.
More than 2K users use this way to
successfully convert their database
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Assessment
- Obtaining access
- Project discussion
- Making migration plan
- Creating SOW
Migration
- DB schema conversion
- Data migration testing
- Data integrity testing
- APP changes: API, ESQL, logic shift to APP layer
Manual review & corrections
- Manual corrections
- Internal testing
Functional testing
- Creating snapshots with data
- Testing APP and DB on snapshots
- Fixing all logical issues
Performance testing
- Performance testing
- Converted code review
- Code refactoring
- Extra code optimization
Data migration
- Prod data migration
Cutover
- Switching DB and APP
- Providing user access
- System startup
With Ispirer Toolkit you get
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High conversion quality
Accelerated conversion speed
Ispirer Toolkit speeds up application conversion by 2-3x over traditional manual conversion
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Relevance
Code conversion accuracy
For unusual migration, we can customize the tool to accurately convert SQL code to the desired technology
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Benefit
Security
Move to a technology that aligns with cutting-edge security protocols and verification techniques
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Benefit
Expertise and proficiency
Team of experts in both source and target DBMSs (Database Management Systems)
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Explore your way to transform
without constraints
Ispirer is a strategic partner of AWS
As a trusted AWS Partner, Ispirer empowers your cloud journey with smart, automated migrations — faster, safer, and built for the future.
Leverage with Ispirer’s expert-led migration services
While Ispirer Toolkit provides comprehensive automation for Amazon Aurora migrations, complex enterprise environments often benefit from combining software with human expertise.
Why partner with Ispirer’s migration team?
Unlike off-the-shelf tools, our engineers analyze your source database’s schema complexities, legacy code dependencies, and compliance requirements. Our services include:
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Pre-migration services
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Database migration services
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Application conversion services
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Post-migration services
Cloud migration software
The toolkit facilitates seamless database migration to both on-premises and cloud environments, with particular expertise in migrating to Google Cloud SQL, AWS RDS, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
The world’s most innovative companies are building their next big thing with Ispirer
Magnit, CardinalHealth, Worldline and more have adopted SQLWays to boost their innovation life-cycle accelerate and manage their end-to-end innovation lifecycle
Oracle to PostgreSQL MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL
Migration project
50%
Migration time reduction
1.365K
Lines of SQL code
8 Tb
of data
Talent Management
"Ispirer Toolkit enabled a seamless migration of 8 TB of data and 1.36M lines of code from Oracle and SQL Server to PostgreSQL. The automation features reduced migration time by 50%, cutting costs and minimizing manual effort. The quality, precision, and support exceeded our expectations."
SQL Server to PostgreSQL
Migration project
70%
Migration time reduction
650K+
Lines of SQL code
700+ tables
of data
Healthcare Solutions
"Ispirer helped us migrate 700+ tables and 650+ stored procedures from SQL Server to PostgreSQL, reducing development time by 60%-70%. The tool efficiently handled case-sensitive issues and frequent data changes. The excellent support made the process easy, fast, and effective."
Oracle 19c to PostgreSQL
Migration project
65%
Migration time reduction
1.500K
Lines of code
8 TB
of data
Payments & Financial Services
"Ispirer Toolkit helped us migrate 1.5 million lines of complex Oracle code to PostgreSQL, overcoming unique challenges with expert support. Their team provided customized solutions for a smooth transition. This migration is a key step in our cloud strategy, and we highly recommend Ispirer's services."
Informix to Oracle
Migration project
78%
Migration time reduction
200K+
Lines of code
12 TB
of data
Governmental
"Ispirer MnMTK was crucial to our successful database migration, converting 12 TB of data and 200,000 lines of SQL code. The tool outperformed other solutions, saving us countless hours. The support team was responsive and effective—money well spent."
Firebird to PostgreSQL
Migration project
55%
Migration time reduction
25K+
Lines of SQL code
> 150 tables
per database
Manufacturing & Fleet Management
"Ispirer's Toolkit enabled the efficient migration of 150 tables and 25,000 lines of code from Firebird to PostgreSQL. The tool saved us time and reduced risks, while the Ispirer team provided excellent support throughout. Highly recommended for similar database migration projects."
Sybase to MySQL
Migration project
95%
Migration time reduction
4.000+
Stored procedures
200+
tables
IT Services
"Ispirer’s tool allowed us to automatically convert 4,000+ procedures and 200+ tables from Sybase to MySQL with 95% success, saving a lot of time. The ability to customize the tool and the excellent support made the process smooth and efficient. Highly recommended!"
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Is AWS Aurora compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL?
Yes, absolutely. AWS Aurora is fully compatible with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. You can continue using your existing code, applications, and tools with some changes. So, you get the familiarity of the database engines you already know, but with the enhanced database performance and reliability of Aurora.
What is the difference between Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora?
Amazon RDS is a service that makes it easier to set up and operate familiar database engines like standard MySQL or PostgreSQL in the cloud. Amazon Aurora is a custom-built and high-performance database engine that is also part of the RDS family but is optimized for the cloud.
The key differences are in performance, scalability opportunities, and cost-effectiveness:
How to migrate databases from on-premises to cloud?
How do I migrate my database to AWS Aurora?
- First, analyze your current database to understand its complexity and identify any potential challenges with a free assessment tool, InsightWays. This helps ensure a successful migration.
- If you are moving from a different type of database (like SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL migration), you'll need to convert the schema (the structure of your tables and data) to be MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible. You can do this with SQLWays.
- The core step is migrating data. You can do this with SQLWays, too, to simplify the process and minimize downtime.
- Thoroughly test your application with the new Aurora database to make sure everything works as expected.
- Finally, you'll switch your application to point to the new Aurora database.
How can I convert an existing RDS MySQL database to Aurora MySQL?
This is one of the most straightforward migration paths because AWS makes it very simple. You can essentially create an Amazon Aurora MySQL Read Replica from your existing RDS database for a MySQL database instance. Once the replication lag is zero, you can promote the Aurora Read Replica to become your new primary database and achieve the Aurora MySQL migration with almost no downtime.
Can I migrate a SQL Server database to AWS Aurora?
Yes, you can. Since Aurora doesn't have a SQL Server-compatible edition, you would migrate your SQL Server database to Aurora PostgreSQL. This is a "heterogeneous" migration because you're moving between different database types. The process involves using the SQLWays schema conversion tool to automatically convert your SQL Server schema and code to a format that's compatible with PostgreSQL.
After the schema is converted, you use the same tool for migrating the actual data to the Aurora instance.