Category: Database

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) takes care of just about all of the heavy lifting once associated with setting up, running, and scaling a MySQL, Oracle Database, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL database. You can focus on your application while RDS handles database upgrades, fault tolerance, and many other issues that once required a system […]

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) simplifies the process of setting up, running, and scaling your MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or Microsoft SQL Server database so that you can focus on your application instead of on complex and time-consuming database administration chores. Many AWS customers are using RDS in demanding production environments and take advantage of […]

Amazon Redshift makes it easy for you to launch a data warehouse. Because Redshift is a managed service, you can focus on your data and your analytics, while Redshift takes care of the infrastructure for you. We have added support for twelve powerful and important features over the past month or so. Let’s take a […]

AWS CloudTrail records the API calls made in your AWS account and publishes the resulting log files to an Amazon S3 bucket in JSON format, with optional notification to an Amazon SNS topic each time a file is published. Our customers use the log files generated CloudTrail in many different ways. Popular use cases include […]

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) takes care of almost all of the day to day grunt work that would otherwise consume a lot of system administrator and DBA time. You don’t have to worry about hardware provisioning, operating system or database installation or patching, backups, monitoring, or failover. Instead, you can invest in your […]

Many organizations face the need to move transactional data from one location to another location. As organizations continue to make the cloud a central part of their overall IT architecture, this need seems to grow in tandem with the size, scope, and complexity of the organization. The application use cases range from migrating data from […]

It is always fun to write about price reductions. I enjoy knowing that our customers will find AWS to be an even better value over time as we work on their behalf to make AWS more and more cost-effective over time. If you’ve been reading this blog for an extended period of time you know […]

Amazon RDS makes it easy for you to set up, scale, and run a relational database. Today we are making RDS even better with the introduction of the second generation (M3) of the Standard DB instance family. This new generation supports the db.m3.medium, db.m3.large, db.m3.xlarge, and db.m3.2xlarge instance types. These instances have a similar CPU […]