This white paper reports on the experience of businesses, large and small, in a variety of industries, in moving their databases to Amazon Web Services (AWS). We will begin by exploring the differences between Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Then we'll follow Datavail DBAs as they assist a variety of clients with assessment to migration, configuration, replication, monitoring, and tuning. Each of these processes is illustrated with an actual case history drawn from customer service evaluations. If you are considering moving databases to AWS, we think you'll find this Datavail white paper to be a helpful guide to the process of migrating your database environment to the cloud.