Category: Amazon RDS

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SQL Server 2012.You can now launch the Express, Web, and Standard Editions of this powerful database from the comfort of the AWS Management Console. SQL Server 2008 R2 is still available, as are multiple versions and editions of MySQL and Oracle Database. If you are from the […]

I spent some time in Silicon Valley last week and late one afternoon I spoke to a group of Engineering VPs drawn from area companies. Although many of them were already AWS customers, it turned out that not everyone knew about the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) so I spent some time showing them […]

As you can tell from some of my recent posts, we’re adding new features to the Virtual Private Cloud and to the Relational Database Service at a very rapid clip. Today’s release involves both of these services! You can now use launch RDS database instances running Microsoft SQL Server inside of a Virtual Private Cloud […]

The Amazon RDS team is rolling out new features at a very rapid clip. Here’s the latest and greatest: Oracle Data Pump Customers have asked us to make it easier to import their existing databases into Amazon RDS. We are making it easy for you to move data on and off of the DB Instances […]

Amazon RDS makes it easy to provision and run production databases, and customers running RDS for SQL Server will be pleased to hear they can now use SQL Server Agent to schedule and execute administrative tasks on their databases. SQL Server Agent is a tool designed to take some of the manual heavy lifting of […]

We have added three new features to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database to enable you to use it for more of your use cases: You can use Amazon RDS for Oracle in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) You can use Oracle XML DB to store, retrieve, navigate, and query XML documents.  You can use Oracle […]

The I/O Imperative As I noted earlier this month, modern web and mobile applications are highly I/O dependent, storing and retrieving lots of data in order to deliver a rich and personalized experience. In order to give you the I/O performance and the flexibility that you need to build these types of applications, we’ve released […]

Ok folks, this one is a mouthful, so bear with me! The Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Tuning Advisor. The Advisor will help you to select and create an optimal set of indexes, indexed views, and partitions even if you don’t have an expert-level understanding of […]