Category: Database

We launched Amazon Aurora a little over a year ago (see my post, Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS, to learn more). Customer adoption of Amazon Aurora has been strong and it is now the fastest-growing AWS service! We recently made Amazon Aurora available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region […]

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 […]

The Amazon Redshift team is on a tear. They are listening to customer feedback and rolling out new features all the time! Below you will find an announcement of another powerful and highly anticipated new feature. — Jeff; Amazon Redshift makes it easy to launch a petabyte-scale data warehouse. For less than $1,000/Terabyte/year, you can […]

Graph databases elegantly and efficiently represent entities (generally known as vertices or nodes) and relationships (edges) that connect them. Here’s a very simple example of a graph: Bill and Candace have a daughter named Janet, and she has a son named Bob. This makes Candace Bob’s grandmother, and Bill his grandfather. Once a graph has […]

When I take a look at our recent service releases and combine it with some of the AWS-related repos on GitHub, an interesting trend becomes apparent. It seems to me that connecting AWS services to each other and to third party tools is becoming more and more common. For example, in a recent post, I […]

We announced Amazon Aurora last year at AWS re:Invent (see Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon for more info).  With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver high performance and 99.99% availability while easily […]

I’ve got some really good news for Amazon DynamoDB users! First, the DynamoDB Streams feature is now available and you can start using it today. As you will see from this blog post, it is now very easy to use AWS Lambda to process the change records from a stream. Second, we are making it […]