The New York Times cut Oracle migration time from 18 to 5 months
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This article describes how The New York Times migrated PLATO, its subscription revenue engine, from Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL in 5 months using an AI-agent-native approach built on Amazon Bedrock, reducing the estimated timeline by 72%.
- AWS DMS Schema Conversion automated database schema transformation across 110,000 conversion items and three schemas
- Mactores Aedeon Agent on Amazon Bedrock (Claude Opus 4.6) remediated embedded Oracle SQL across 6 million lines of code in five languages
- AWS DMS managed continuous data replication with reverse-replication rollback capability for zero-risk cutover
- Achieved 18,500 requests per second at go-live with zero revenue impact and 100% row-level data accuracy
- Comprehensive cutover readiness checklist covered infrastructure, high availability, security, monitoring, data validation, and rollback readiness
The AI-agent architecture demonstrates that complex enterprise database migrations with large code bases and zero-downtime requirements can be compressed from 18 months to 5 months while maintaining production reliability.
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