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Use cases

Migrate from legacy or on-premises databases to managed cloud services through a simplified migration process, removing undifferentiated database management tasks.

Modernize to purpose-built databases to innovate and build faster for any use case at scale for one-tenth the cost.

Create redundancies of business-critical databases and data stores to minimize downtime and protect against any data loss.

Build data lakes and perform real-time processing on change data from your data stores.