Migrating on-premises Teradata environments to Teradata VantageCloud Lake on AWS

Battulga Purevragchaa, Shirin Ali, and Doug Mbaya, Amazon Web Services

Catherine Adams and Jimmy Hayes, Teradata

This guide provides an overview of options and considerations for migrating your Teradata Vantage on-premises system to Teradata VantageCloud Lake on AWS.  Teradata VantageCloud Lake on AWS combines the advanced analytics platform of Teradata Vantage with the global reach and scalability of AWS infrastructure. You can use this guide to gain a better understanding of the data migration process and how to choose a data migration approach that meets your organization's business and IT requirements. The guide also includes reference architectures that you can use as templates to build your own migration architecture.

This guide is intended for technical decision-makers, business decision-makers, and AWS Services Partners.

Targeted business outcomes

This guide can help you and your organization achieve the following objectives:

• Understand the costs, licensing requirements, and prerequisites for migrating to Teradata VantageCloud Lake in the AWS Cloud.

• Identify a reference architecture that meets your organization's requirements.

• Identify a migration approach that meets your organization's requirements.

Costs and licenses

Every organization has its unique data analytics requirements. Teradata VantageCloud Lake offers a choice of cloud pricing models so that you can find the right fit for your workloads, budget, and goals.  

Contact your Teradata account team for information about licensing.

Prerequisites

Before you migrate from Teradata Vantage to the AWS Cloud, we recommend that you meet the following prerequisites:

• Update your on-premises ecosystem where possible, including upgrading to the latest versions of Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU) and third-party applications.

• Identify resources required for the migration process. The Migration process section of this guide covers resource requirements in more detail.