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Migration approaches
The following diagram shows the migration paths that customers may take depending on the current platform, tooling, and experiences available to them.
Possible migration approaches
The current OS and endianness of the platform determines the appropriate tools you will need to migrate your Oracle E-Business Suite to AWS.
The following table identifies each tool and its support for homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations.
Table 2 — Migration tools and their support for homogenous and heterogenous migrations
| Migration tool or utility |
Application/Database tier level |
Homogeneous OS migration |
Heterogeneous OS migration |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application and database tier |
Yes |
No |
Block replication |
|
|
Oracle
E-Business Suite Cloning |
Application tier |
Yes |
No |
File system copy |
|
Oracle Data Guard |
Database tier |
Yes |
No |
|
|
Oracle Transportable Tablespaces |
Database tier |
Yes |
Yes |
Migration of data files and database tablespaces structure |
|
Oracle RMAN |
Database tier |
Yes |
No |
|
|
Oracle GoldenGate |
Not supported for Oracle E- Business Suite Migration |
N/A |
N/A |
Logical replication of a database |
|
Oracle Data Pump |
Database tier |
Yes |
Yes |
Export/import utility |
The preceding table should help you identify the tools for homogeneous or heterogeneous migrations. Further details on some of these tools are provided in the following sections.
