How We Migrated from Heroku Postgres to AWS RDS

Description and use

Wootric migrated its database from Heroku Postgres to AWS RDS to reduce costs and gain better control over infrastructure. This move resulted in significant savings and improved performance through custom tuning.

Problem

High costs associated with Heroku Postgres and the need for more granular control over database infrastructure and performance tuning.

Outcome

Successfully migrated from Heroku Postgres to AWS RDS, achieving significant cost reduction and improved database performance through custom tuning.

Workflow

• Assess current database usage and identify cost drivers on Heroku.
• Set up AWS RDS for PostgreSQL instance.
• Plan data migration strategy to minimize downtime.
• Execute data migration from Heroku Postgres to AWS RDS.
• Update application configuration to point to the new RDS endpoint.
• Monitor performance and optimize database settings post-migration.
• Decommission Heroku Postgres instance.

Evidence

We migrated from Heroku Postgres to AWS RDS to reduce costs and gain more control over our database infrastructure.

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