From the course: Understanding the Value of Cloud-Native Architecture

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Move to a cloud-native database

Move to a cloud-native database

From the course: Understanding the Value of Cloud-Native Architecture

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Move to a cloud-native database

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- [Instructor] One of the hardest, but by many measures most important, step in the whole migration process is moving your data to the cloud. Even if all you do is move your database from an on-premise database to an equivalent database hosted in the cloud, the process can be difficult. How do you move eight terabytes of data from one database to another without having a significant amount of downtime for the migration? This is a challenging task in its own right. There are many options and strategies for doing this, and this topic is well beyond the scope of this course. For this course, let's just say there are ways to move large quantities of data from one database to another without any downtime. Many people have done it before you. But the real question is, should you? Is the type of database you're currently using the best option for your cloud native application? And while keeping your existing database…

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