This pattern describes how to migrate large, on-premises MySQL databases efficiently to Amazon Aurora MySQL by using Percona XtraBackup. Percona XtraBackup is an open-source, non-blocking backup utility for MySQL-based servers. The pattern shows how to use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to reduce the time to upload the backup to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and to restore the backup to Amazon Aurora MySQL. The pattern also provides details on how to make incremental Percona backups to minimize the number of binary logs to be applied to the target Aurora MySQL database.
