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Databases on AWS: How to Choose

Learn how to ask the right questions to discover your use case requirements, and evaluate the purpose-built databases and their options.

AWS Well-Architected Database Architecture Selection

We explain how to the choose the best database to solve your specific problems to help you build applications that meet your customers' needs.

Modernizing the Amazon Database Infrastructure

We discuss AWS database services, existing application designs, and the potential challenges when moving Oracle databases to AWS.
Build a Modern Application with Purpose-Built AWS Databases

We explain AWS purpose-built databases and how to use them. We also walk through a detailed example of these databases powering different experiences in an application.

Best Practices for Running Oracle Database on AWS

We provide best practices for achieving optimal performance, availability, and reliability, and lowering the total cost of ownership while running Oracle Database in the AWS Cloud.

Best Practices for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2

We show you how to minimize your costs, maximize availability of your SQL Server databases, optimize your infrastructure for maximum performance, and tighten it for security compliance.
Paginated Search with Purpose Built-Databases

We explain the common scaling challenges that can occur when growing data lakes and approaches for onboarding data producers and consumers.

AWS DMS Step-by-Step Walkthroughs

We walk you through how to use the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate sample data to AWS.

Design a Database for a Mobile App

Learn advanced data modeling patterns in Amazon DynamoDB while building a DynamoDB-backed mobile application.
AWS Database Migration Service Automation Framework on AWS

Deploy an automated framework to migrate relational databases by using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) on the AWS Cloud.

Deploy Amazon RDS Databases for Applications in Kubernetes

Learn how to deploy Jira into a Kubernetes cluster provided by Amazon EKS using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL as the database system.

Amazon Aurora MySQL Database on AWS

Launch an environment for an Amazon Aurora MySQL database, a relational database engine that's compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Monitoring Amazon RDS Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch

We provide an overview of Amazon RDS and Amazon CloudWatch, and show you how to view DB instance metrics in the CloudWatch console.

Top 10 Recommendations to Optimize Costs with Your SQL Server Workloads

We discuss 10 things you can do to save money with your SQL Server workloads, including selecting the right architecture.

Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability: Databases

Learn how to optimize your databases’ utilization, performance, and queries using design principles from the AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar.

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