Amazon Web Services Reports General Availability of Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Oct 29, 2021 By MarketDepth
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) company, Amazon Web Services, Inc. has reported the general availability of Babelfish for amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Compatible Edition to allow customers to run applications written for Microsoft SQL Server directly on Amazon Aurora with little or no code changes. This will enable customers to migrate to Amazon with understand of commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. “More and more customers have told us they want a fast, inexpensive, and low-risk way to break free from old-guard database vendors and their punitive licensing terms, high costs, and lack of innovation,” said Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases and Analytics at AWS. “Now, with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, anyone can quickly, easily, and cost effectively migrate their applications to Amazon Aurora, giving customers the best of both worlds—the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at a cost more commonly associated with open source.”
“We’ve been using Amazon Aurora to support new application development because of its high performance and scalability, and we are eager to migrate our large portfolio of existing applications to Amazon Aurora as well. Our development teams used Babelfish in preview to move one of our mission-critical applications to Amazon Aurora, and the migration required minimal changes in our SQL Server application code. We pointed the applications at Aurora, and it just worked. We are excited for the general availability launch of Babelfish, which will enable us to migrate the rest of our application portfolio to Aurora in a fraction of the time it might otherwise have taken.”
Brian McGrath, Senior Vice President of Operations at Tyler Technologies
