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title: "How Should We Plan a Low-Downtime Move from AWS RDS to Azure SQL?"  
description: "How Should We Plan a Low-Downtime Move from AWS RDS to Azure SQL?"  
author: "Rashtra Gaurav"  
published: 2026-10-10  
updated: 2026-10-10  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162253/how-should-we-plan-a-low-downtime-move-from-aws-rds-to-azure-sql  
category: "Database Migration"  
tags: ["aws", "Azure", "database migration", "RDS", "Azure SQL"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How Should We Plan a Low-Downtime Move from AWS RDS to Azure SQL?

We’re considering moving a production database from AWS RDS to Azure SQL, and the application cannot be offline for a long maintenance window. The database is large enough that a simple export and import would take longer than we can comfortably allow.

For teams that have handled a similar cross-cloud database migration, what parts took the most planning: keeping data in sync, handling schema differences, or switching application connections? I’m trying to understand what migration approach fits this kind of downtime constraint.


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