Category: Database

Organizations the world over rely on the Exadata database platform to operate and manage Oracle databases, simplify data management, and ensure performance-intensive systems are running as expected. While Exadata workloads perform well on premises, customers are looking to achieve the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of AWS. Learn how Navisite tests the performance of Exadata workloads once they have been migrated to AWS using Oracle Real Application Testing (RAT).

To reap the benefits of cloud computing, organizations cannot simply take their existing applications and architectures in their legacy on-premises environment and move them as-is to the cloud. True cloud modernization with MongoDB Atlas on AWS enables you to move data and simultaneously apply the latest innovations in development methodologies, architectural patterns, and technologies to refresh your portfolio of existing applications.

MariaDB offers a single unified analytical and transactional cloud database that can auto scale without the costly tradeoffs. SkySQL is a database as a service (DBaaS) solution on AWS that makes it easy for customers to start using MariaDB Enterprise in the cloud. It eliminates the need to pre-provision expensive hardware for testing, which often sits idle. In this post, the AWS SaaS Factory team speaks with Alexey Vorovich, VP of Engineering for SkySQL at MariaDB, about the recent SkySQL launch.

Competitive advantage often lies in a company’s ability to create modern customer experiences. But for many, an unwieldy data infrastructure can get in the way and prevent innovation. Explore the importance of modernizing your data infrastructure to speed up application development and iteration, and dive deep on key features and benefits of using MongoDB Atlas on AWS to get the job done. Additionally, we’ll review a case study of one organization’s modernization journey.

Oracle Database is at the heart of many mission-critical enterprise applications. Moving such applications to AWS offers multiple benefits, including agility, elasticity, and reliability. AWS ISV Partner FlashGrid, when helping Oracle Database customers move to AWS, sees the most success come from simple and inexpensive solutions. Learn how the new Amazon EBS gp3 general purpose volumes and Amazon EC2 R5b instances enable high-performance Oracle Databases.

Founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent offers a platform for data in motion that enables processing data as real-time streams across on-premises and AWS. Learn how to power a logistics and inventory system with microsecond read performance powered by Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and durable streaming with Kafka powered by Confluent Cloud. You can use this pattern for building streaming applications and other broad sets of use cases with asynchronous requirements for low latency reads.

As software release cycles get progressively faster, coordinating database schema changes with application releases becomes more difficult. For some teams, it may require a complete overhaul of processes and perhaps even a change in mindset but it is possible. Tools such as GitLab and Liquibase can be used to automate the deployment of database schema changes. Learn how Blue Sentry has extensive experience using infrastructure as code (IaC) to improve CI/CD processes and to support better outcomes for customers.

With the new Amazon RDS Ready for Business Applications category, part of the AWS Service Ready Program, customers can now find business application products that follow AWS security, availability, reliability, performance, and other architecture best practices while integrating with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS Ready business applications are deployed within a customer’s account or provided as SaaS deployed in AWS Partners’ accounts. Learn more about Amazon RDS Ready Ready Partners!

Learn how Q2, a financial experience company that provides digital banking and lending solutions, worked with AWS ISV Partner ALTR, a provider of data security as a service that runs exclusively on AWS, to launch a PCI DSS-compliant application in a fraction of the time it normally takes to achieve certification. Q2’s Biller Direct application provides a centralized payment environment where users can enroll, manage their bills, and view projected spend.

As organizations move to AWS, ensuring you have an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy in place to manage outages is paramount. Through defining a common understanding of RTO and RPO requirements, organizations can adequately design for DR solutions. Learn how Onica’s Elastic Engineering team co-created a solution with a client that leverages serverless architecture and enables an automated backup and restore for Amazon RDS instances.