AWS Database Blog

This is a guest post co-written by Arnaud Briche, the Founder of Agnostic. At Agnostic, our mission is to democratize access to well-structured blockchain data. We aim to provide a swift, user-friendly, and robust method for querying the vast volumes of data generated by smart contract blockchains. As a company, for performance reasons we first […]

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a turning point, capturing everyone’s imaginations. Integrating generative capabilities into customer-facing services and solutions has become critical. Current generative AI offerings are the culmination of a gradual evolution from machine learning and deep learning models. The leap from deep learning to generative AI is enabled by foundation models. Amazon […]

Customers choose Amazon DynamoDB to improve their applications’ performance, scalability, and resiliency. DynamoDB’s serverless architecture simplifies operations by abstracting hardware, scaling, patches, and maintenances. Managing data access and security in DynamoDB is different than instance-based database solutions. DynamoDB uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to authenticate and authorize access to resources, whereas RBDMS solutions rely on firewalls rules, […]

This is the second part in a two-part series on how to migrate a multi-TB database to Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that automates database setup, operation, backups, high availability, and scalability while providing access to both the database and […]

Freecharge, subsidiary of Axis Bank, is a payment app serving over 100 million users across India. Over the years, Freecharge has transformed to become one of the leading financial services and investment apps in the country. Freecharge has always been known for offering safe and seamless UPI payments, utility bill payments, mobile/DTH recharges, and much […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) offers benefits to customers building modern applications across multiple domains, including healthcare, gaming, and finance. As a fully managed document database, it can improve user experiences through flexibility, scalability, high performance, and advanced functionality. Enterprises that use the JSON data model supported by Amazon DocumentDB can achieve faster application development […]

The binary log (binlog) in MySQL is used to capture database modifications on a MySQL server in a logical format known as “events”. These database modifications can include DCL statements (such as CREATE USER or GRANT), DDL statements (CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE) and DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE). When such a modification is committed in […]

We often want to take an inventory of the types of data in our database. What is our schema? This is most useful in DEV or TEST databases whose content is created by several users or teams, is often experimental, or has multiple versions. Even in controlled environments like PROD, where the application validates data […]

Amazon Relational Database Server (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for applications that require operating system access and database customization that is not available in Amazon RDS for SQL Server. The ability to encrypt an application’s connection to RDS Custom is a common security requirement. Network encryption protects data in […]

Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database (Amazon RDS) for Db2 at re:Invent 2023. RDS for Db2 is the latest addition to the Amazon RDS family of database engines. You can deploy a Db2 database on scalable hardware in minutes designed for optimal performance with an optional highly available database using a Multi-AZ deployment, which synchronously replicates […]