Atlassian
Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora
Atlassian migrated about four million Jira databases from RDS Postgres to Aurora, balancing reliability, downtime and cost.
- Published
- 2025-07-02
- Scale
- 4 million databases
- Techniques
- database migration multi-tenancy cost optimization
- Stack
- PostgreSQL AWS Aurora AWS RDS
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- Railway · Deploy something like this on Railway: spin up PostgreSQL plus your app in a few clicks. New accounts get $20 in credit (applied when you pick a paid plan).
Railway isn't part of Atlassian's setup in this story. It's just an easy place to try the same building blocks.
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