AWS Database Blog
Author: Anuraag Deekonda
Understanding autovacuum in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL environments
August 2025: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. PostgreSQL has become the preferred open-source relational database for many enterprise developers and startups, and powers leading business and mobile applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora as fully managed relational database services. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL […]
Implementing a disaster recovery strategy with Amazon RDS
This post was updated 2/1/2021 to fix a statement about how to share automated snapshots between AWS Accounts. Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database. Based on AWS high performance compute and storage, Amazon RDS supports the MySQL, SQL […]