Question

A company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application currently runs on physical servers with a monolithic architecture and uses an Oracle database. The development team wants to move the application to AWS with minimal code changes while taking advantage of AWS managed database services to reduce operational overhead. Which migration strategy should the company use?

Accepted Answer

Replatform the application by migrating to EC2 instances and replacing Oracle with Amazon RDS

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Rehost the application by using EC2 instances and keeping the existing Oracle database unchanged

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Refactor the application by rewriting it as microservices using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB

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Retain the application on-premises and use AWS Direct Connect for hybrid connectivity