Can I do distributed stress testing on Amazon rds oracle database?

We have an onpremise production database . We are planning to move it to cloud. What types of Performance testing can be done ? 1. Is it okay to start with stress testing first? 2. Shall I start with load testing and then do stress testing? 3. Can I do distributed testing for both load and stress test? I am looking for a right approach to do performance testing on Database.