AWS re:Invent 2019: How Verizon moves critical databases to Amazon RDS with zero downtime (DAT381)

Learn how Verizon is moving mission-critical databases from on premises to Amazon RDS. Verizon’s workloads, including VZW.com, demand high availability, data consistency, and low latency at all times to service millions of customers every day. In this session, Verizon engineers share how they achieved a zero-downtime migration to AWS by setting up a multi-region active-active architecture and ensuring data synchronization across on-premises and cloud environments during the transition phase. They dive deep into the specific features and tools used and share the challenges and lessons learned during the migration process.