Identifying Opportunities for Purpose-Built Databases

When it comes to purpose-built databases, AWS offers a select variety of databases that customers can choose from for their application workloads, including NoSQL, graph, time series, in-memory, search, and so on. In this section of the chapter, you will also explore these few select categories of database offerings and learn about identifying the right service for the right workloads.

For this section as well, we shall leverage the same SQL Server monolith database as an example and map it against each of the migration and modernization opportunities listed here, starting with rehosting.

Opportunity 1: Rehosting

Rehosting is the preferred choice for migrating even database workloads if you wish to have a faster mechanism of moving workloads to the cloud. Keeping in mind that our sample application is a SQL server, the options for rehosting are once again limited to leveraging Amazon EC2 instances itself. AWS provides licensed...