PART 1

Technical Problem

This is a forced change to upgrade from MySQL 7 before it stops being supported in October 2023.

Value to Customers & Users

For Customers, our solution adds:

• the technical ability to put an Analyst instance in the closest AWS datacenter to large customer centers

Value to Lightcast

For Lightcast it provides:

• security

• long-term database support

• better disaster recovery

Target User Role/Client/Client Category

Who are we building this for?

Delivery Mechanism

The Analyst Platform

Success Criteria & Metrics

Analyst is running on the new database before MySQL 7 support is shut down

Aspects that are out of scope (of this phase)

What is explicitly not a part of this epic? List things that have been discussed but will not be included. Things you imagine in a phase 2, etc.

PART 2

Estimated Costs

Direct Financial Costs

Are there direct costs that this feature entails? Dataset acquisition, server purchasing, software licenses, etc.?

Team Effort

Each team involved should give a general t-shirt size estimate of their work involved. As the epic proceeds, they can add a link to the Jira epic/issue associated with their portion of this work.