After nearly a decade of managing our on-premise database infrastructure, our team finally took the plunge into cloud database services with AWS RDS. The migration journey came with its share of surprises — both pleasant and challenging. Here’s what I discovered during our transition to AWS RDS managed services, along with key insights that might help your organization make informed decisions about your own database strategy.

I still remember the morning my boss walked into our weekly team meeting and dropped the bomb: “We’re finally moving our databases to the cloud.”