How Dafiti migrated its most critical database to Amazon Aurora MySQL with minimal downtime and improved operational efficiency
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This article discusses how the retail company Dafiti migrated its critical database infrastructure from self-managed MySQL on Amazon EC2 to Amazon Aurora MySQL, while minimizing downtime and improving operational efficiency.
Specifically, the article covers:
- The challenges faced with their existing MySQL architecture on EC2, such as difficulties with scalability, monitoring, and manual management tasks.
- The three-phase migration strategy: creating a hybrid environment with Aurora, redirecting read traffic, and then redirecting write traffic.
- The benefits achieved with Aurora MySQL, including faster failover, auto-scaling, automated maintenance, Performance Insights, and right-sizing instances.
- Dafiti's plans to migrate additional databases to Aurora MySQL based on the success of this initial migration.
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