Introduction
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) allows us quickly deploy databases without worrying about underlying infrastructure. These pleasant words that have thrilled the business world and trickled through the industry. AWS, Azure, OCI and other cloud service providers all have these DBaaS offerings. Economies of scale implies that adopting cloud should be inexpensive. In practice, however, we find that this is not always the case for existing, non-cloud-native, large enterprises. One must take into account quite a few aspects before deploying/migrating a database in the cloud. This article explores some of those considerations. We also demonstrate how decisions can be