Charting a Greener Pasture: The AgTech Innovator that Traded Oracle for EDB Postgres on AWS

Farming today looks a whole lot different than it did 100 years ago. Feeding a growing world these days means combining traditional farming practices with advanced technology to increase efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. 

AgTech companies create and use innovative technology and applications to help tackle the challenges facing global agriculture and food systems and achieve better outcomes. One international agricultural company in particular relies on high-volume applications to handle quality assurance of milk pasteurization and production processes. They also use applications to track delivery trucks and company personnel, manage invoicing and billing, and analyze logistics data to optimize delivery routing.

The company ran these applications in an on-premises Oracle database environment, though they had a strategic commitment to move both production and next-generation apps to an AWS cloud infrastructure. Amazon's RDS Postgres solution was a natural choice, given the ease of deployment and other efficiencies on AWS. 

The only holdup? The initial application being migrated from Oracle to Postgres was an essential delivery app. There was no way the company could risk it going down and disrupting the supply chain. That’s why near-zero downtime was mandatory.

That's where EDB Postgres Distributed running on the fully managed EDB BigAnimal Cloud Database was a differentiator. With built-in Oracle compatibility provided by running EDB Postgres Advanced Server on BigAnimal, the EDB solution was seamlessly and safely deployed into the company’s AWS Cloud infrastructure. Not only was the agriculture company able to hit their migration timelines, the solution protected their business from regional failures leading to extended downtime. 

This all goes to show why EDB Postgres and AWS are better together. AWS is the world-leading cloud infrastructure provider and EDB is the largest builder of Postgres. So it’s only natural that together, EDB and AWS empower you to run enterprise-ready Postgres in the cloud with unparalleled scalability. Find out how.

Read more about this agriculture company’s journey from Oracle to BigAnimal on AWS