Intuitive.ai Pilot: RDS Custom for Oracle to Tessell PaaS in 4 Weeks

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle reaches end of standard support on March 31, 2027. Customers running production Oracle workloads on RDS Custom must transition to a different platform. The default fallback to self-managed Oracle on EC2 reintroduces the very operational burden that drove customers to a managed service in the first place.

Intuitive's productized 4-week pilot — co-delivered with Tessell — gives you a low-risk, fixed-fee path to validate Tessell Oracle PaaS on AWS as the destination for your RDS Custom estate, on a representative production workload, with a measurable cutover and a wave-grouped roadmap for the rest of your databases.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE 4-WEEK PILOT:

Week 1 — Discovery & Assessment. AWR-driven workload analysis, dependency mapping, right-sized Bill of Materials for the Tessell target environment, and signed-off scope.

Week 2 — Tessell Landing Zone Build. Tessell Oracle PaaS deployed in your AWS account, integrated with your VPC, IAM, KMS, and monitoring stack. HA, DR, snapshot, and backup policies configured.

Week 3 — Pilot Database Migration. One representative Oracle database migrated from RDS Custom to Tessell using continuous replication. Test cutover with full rollback rehearsal, followed by the production cutover in your maintenance window. Target downtime under 10 minutes.

Week 4 — Steady-State & Roadmap. Day-2 operations validated end-to-end: provisioning, cloning, point-in-time recovery, RMAN backups, HA failover, and patching. Knowledge transfer to your team. Wave-grouped migration roadmap and commercial proposal for the remaining estate.

WHY TESSELL + INTUITIVE:

• Stay on AWS. Tessell PaaS is AWS-native, runs in your account, and preserves AWS spend, EDP eligibility, and your existing commercial relationship.

• Same managed experience. Wizard-driven provisioning, automated patching, integrated HA/DR, snapshots, and clones — the operating model your team already knows.

• Zero-impact transition. Continuous replication and connection-string-only cutover. No application rearchitecture for the pilot workload.

• Fixed-fee, productized. No discovery games. No T&M creep. The pilot is bounded, deliverable-driven, and acceptance-tested.

• Built on proven IP. Intuitive has delivered 100+ enterprise database modernization engagements. The pilot reuses our Build & Migrate accelerator, AWR-driven assessment framework, and Elastic DBA managed services.

• Wave-ready. The pilot ends with a roadmap and commercial structure for the rest of your estate, sized and sequenced so you can hit March 2027 with margin.

DELIVERABLES:

You receive nine signed-off deliverables including the Discovery & Assessment Report, right-sized Bill of Materials, Landing Zone Runbook, Migration & Rollback Playbook, Acceptance Test Pack with results, Cutover Execution Report, Day-2 Operations Runbooks, Wave-Grouped Migration Roadmap, and a Closeout Report with commercial proposal.

WHO THIS IS FOR:

This pilot is built for customers running production Oracle workloads on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle who need a transition path that preserves AWS spend, application architecture, and operational maturity. Best fit: enterprises with one or more Oracle databases on 12c/18c/19c/21c Enterprise Edition, sized up to 2 TB per pilot instance, hosted in AWS regions where Tessell is generally available. Larger workloads, RAC, and Exadata-specific footprints are supported under separate engagements.

PROCUREMENT FLEXIBILITY:

This engagement can be procured directly via AWS Marketplace as a Private Offer, drawn down against existing AWS EDP commitments where applicable. Intuitive will work with your AWS account team to identify available funding programs (MAP, PSF) that may offset the engagement fee.