Category: Amazon RDS

Today I would like to tell you about a new cross-account snapshot sharing feature for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). You can share the snapshots with specific AWS accounts or you can make them public. Cross-Account Snapshot Sharing I often create snapshot backups as part of my RDS demos: The snapshots are easy to […]

I love to demo Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to live audiences! They always appreciate the fact that I can launch a MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Amazon Aurora database instance with a couple of clicks. Today I would like to bring you up to date on a bunch of improvements that we […]

Reserved Instances have been a part of the AWS pricing model for quite some time. You can reserve an instance and receive a significant discount, along with a capacity reservation, when you purchase a Reserved Instance (RI). You don’t need to make any code or administrative changes in order to benefit from Reserved Instances. We’ll […]

My colleague Mingxue Zhao sent me a guest post designed to make sure that you are aware of an important time / clock issue. Note: This post was first published on May 18, 2015. We made some important additions and corrections on May 25, 2015. — Jeff; The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) […]

I’ve got good news for users of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).  You can now launch Database Instances that run Oracle Database 12c (version 12.1.0.1.v1 to be precise). This version of Oracle Database introduces over 500 new features! Here are a few  that I found interesting: Data Redaction – You can mask sensitive data […]

You can now encrypt your Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for Oracle databases using keys that you manage through AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) (this feature was already available for Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL). The encryption applies to data at rest on the underlying storage for […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy for you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle relational database in the cloud. Today we are adding support for version 9.4.1 of PostgreSQL to RDS. Among other features, this version allows you to store JSON data in a compact, […]

Encryption of stored data (often referred to as “data at rest”) is an important part of any data protection plan. Today we are making it easier for you to encrypt data at rest in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database instances running MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database. Before today’s release you had the following […]