Category: Database

Learn how to set up Active Directory authentication with authorization for Postgres. Heimdall Data provides synchronization scripts for other databases as well, allowing all Amazon RDS instance types to be supported in a similar way. Using Active Directory authentication allows organizations to standardize their password and authorization management via a globally available authentication store, reducing management overhead and improving security and auditing capabilities.

As organizations run mission-critical databases on Oracle Exadata, businesses are increasingly looking for proof points of like-to-like performance of these databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This post explores how Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) supported a UK-based utility provider’s digitalization journey by comparing performance of their on-premises Oracle Exadata database with Amazon RDS for Oracle.

Migrating a database to a new platform is a significant event in an application’s lifecycle. The process can impact performance, availability, and reliability to a large extent. With Cloudreach, customers will see benefits from lower cost of migration, optimization and modernization, lower administrative burden to operate core databases, and confidence in the approach and technologies used to execute the most stressful part of an infrastructure change.

One of the biggest advantages of VMware Cloud on AWS is that it can readily integrate with other AWS services. That gives you countless ways to elevate your workloads. If you’re amassing data in your databases over time and are looking for novel ways to glean fresh insights out of it, using Amazon Redshift and Amazon QuickSight is an easy and accessible way to achieve it. This post describes how to get more out of existing data residing inside your databases running in VMware Cloud on AWS.

Customers that have decided to embark on a cloud transformation of their applications typically need to create detailed plans on how to secure business continuity during the migration period. Learn how MYCOM OSI was able to design workload migrations for its suite of Experience Assurance and Analytics (EAA) applications from on-premises private data center environments into a SaaS model based on AWS.

The Health and Wellness Repository is a blockchain-based web application developed by PwC India’s Blockchain Laboratory, in collaboration with PwC Japan. The application enables employees’ health status to be securely and efficiently shared with their organizations, allowing enterprises to monitor and manage physical visits. The solution helps organizations address the post-pandemic challenges of employees physically visiting workplaces.

Large-scale database migrations are difficult, have multiple phases, and are time-consuming. Customers want a simpler way to achieve large-scale migration with little to no downtime. Learn how Futuralis helped their customer migrate more than 50,000 MySQL databases hosted on an Amazon EC2 server to Amazon Aurora relational database using AWS and native MySQL tools. The customer had MySQL version 5.5 hosted on EC2 with more than 50,000 databases with 1.5 million tables and hundreds of millions of records.

As organizations acquire more and more data, the need to effectively store and query the data has become very important. Canvas Glide from LTI is a tool for administering Amazon Redshift’s day-to-day routine tasks. It also helps organizations manage all financial aspects related to cost allocation, chargeback, monitoring, and planning of Amazon Redshift clusters. Learn how Canvas Glide assists administrators to successfully manage their clusters and guides them on common maintenance tasks.

In early August, millions of people took part in the 2021 Census across Australia, providing a comprehensive picture of the country’s economic, social, and cultural makeup. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ran the 2021 Census on AWS using an operational insights platform built in partnership with AWS Professional Services, Shine Solutions, ARQ Group, and the ABS. Learn how this tool provided near real-time insights into a very complex logistical activity.

Esri and AWS are extending their collaboration through an extensive integration of product suites and services. This includes Amazon QuickSight leveraging Esri basemap tiles through Amazon Location Service. Esri also supports ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes running with Amazon EKS, and interoperability with Amazon Redshift. Esri‘s GIS solutions create, manage, analyze, and map various types of geospatial data. Their flagship GIS mapping software, ArcGIS, is a powerful mapping and spatial analytics technology.