Every business runs on data. Customer records, transactions, inventory, history — strip the data away and what remains is infrastructure with nothing to protect and software with nothing to process. Data is the lifeblood of any organization, and the database is its sanctuary.
We treat physical infrastructure like a fort firewalls, perimeter security, access controls. But the database sitting at the center of that fort? In many organizations it is still on-premises, on aging hardware, managed by processes built in a different era of computing. And eventually every organization faces the same decision: migrate.
Database migration to the cloud is not a lift-and-shift operation. It is not an export-and-import exercise. It is a surgical operation performed on a living, breathing system that cannot go offline. The patient your database must remain conscious throughout the procedure.
Get it wrong and you are not just looking at downtime. You are looking at financial loss, reputational damage, and in regulated industries regulatory fines that can dwarf the cost of the migration itself.
For complete howto document and demonstration video follow the link https://github.com/neamanahmed/LiveMigration/blob/main/MySQL-Live_AWS-RDS-Migration_Oracle_GoldenGate.pdf
⚠ THE REGULATORY SUMMARY:
UK — FCA PS21/3 Impact Tolerances + DORA Art.11/12 + PRA new penalty framework 2024
KSA — SAMA PDPL + Technology Risk Management Framework + Banking Control Law
UAE — CBUAE Federal Decree Law No.6/2025 + Open Finance Regulation + AML/CFT obligations
ALL THREE: Database unavailability is not an IT incident. It is a regulatory event.
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