Moving from SQL Server to PostgreSQL can have several benefits to your organisation. From significant reducitons in licence costs, to leveraging the extensions capability to provide additional capabilities in the engine for your applications to use. But how do we actually convert a SQL Server database to PostgreSQL database?

In this workshop we will look at, and demonstrate how to assess, plan, and perform a migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL running in Amazon Aurora.

The topics covered in this workshop are.
1. Why move from SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
2. What is Amazon Aurora and why use that for PostgreSQL.
3. Identifying, assessing, and planning workload migration.
4. Automating database and infrastructure deployment in AWS.
5. How to convert and migrate a SQL Server databases.
6. Summary of tools, services, and techniques used through the course of the day.

After this workshop you will have a solid understanding of how to identify the right workloads to move, the servcies and tools to make life easier, and how to perform a database migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL.