Amazon RDS for Oracle offers ease of operability, maintenance, scalability, and reliability while migrating Oracle workloads to AWS.
Automatic switchover described in this post can reduce the overall RTO by automatically redirecting the client connection to the newly promoted or switched-over database.
The reason for using the automatic switchover is that it saves time and effort required to update the application tnsnames.ora file manually.
This post provides guidance to configure the automatic reconnection of the application to a standby database during a disaster recovery incident.
Key concepts related to the Oracle Data Guard replication status are defined.
The solution involves creating and starting the database service ...
During a switchover, the primary database transitions to a standby role, and the standby database transitions to the primary role.
Advantages of using Amazon RDS for Oracle for automatic switchover include straightforward implementation and minimizing the RTO and RPO.
This post demonstrated the steps to configure automatic reconnection of an application to a standby database during a disaster recovery incident using Oracle Data Guard.
The authors have deep expertise in database migration and administration on Amazon RDS for Oracle, Aurora PostgreSQL, and RDS SQL Server databases.