Migrate Amazon RDS MySQL Databases to Amazon VPC

Migrate Amazon RDS MySQL Databases to Amazon VPC

Migrate Amazon RDS MySQL Databases to Amazon VPC with Amazon EC2 ClassicLink and Read Replicas

Guidance to migrate Amazon RDS MySQL databases to Amazon VPC

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to:

  • Set up
  • Operate
  • Scale a relational database in the cloud.

If your AWS account was created before 2013, you might be running Amazon RDS MySQL in an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)-Classic environment, and may be looking to migrate Amazon RDS into an Amazon EC2-Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment.

This white paper outlines the requirements and detailed steps needed to migrate Amazon RDS MySQL databases from EC2-Classic to EC2-VPC with minimal downtime using RDS MySQL Read Replicas and ClassicLink.

Here is the link to the white paper

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