Author: Sudarshan Roy

In this post, we demonstrate how SQL Server 2025 on Amazon RDS can call Amazon Bedrock foundation models directly from T-SQL using sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint. This approach removes middleware, reduces latency, and brings AI capabilities directly into database workflows.

Scopely is a global games developer, operator, and publisher with operations across North America, Central America, EMEA, and Asia, and additional studio partners spanning four continents. Over the past year, Scopely has served more than 500 million players with major titles such as “MONOPOLY GO!,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Star Trek Fleet Command,” and “Scrabble GO.” In this post, we showcase how Scopely used CloudBasix to enable migration of “Stumble Guys” high-volume backend transactional databases with minimal downtime from Azure SQL database to Amazon RDS for Server.

In this post, we explain how to perform a database minor version upgrade (patch) with Multi-AZ on CEV instance, where RDS Custom performs rolling upgrades, so you have an outage only for failover period and the time needed for post-upgrade scripts until the instance is fully operational.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a powerful feature of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that provides real-time and historical insights into your database performance. Whether you’re troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, identifying slow queries, or optimizing your system, Performance Insights is able to help. With Performance Insights, you gain a deeper understanding of your database’s behavior. […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2022 for Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. You can use SQL Server 2022 features such as accelerated database recovery, intelligent query processing, intelligent performance, monitoring improvements, and resumable online index creations. In this post, we summarize the new features on […]

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy service. You don’t need to provision or manage any additional infrastructure to start using RDS Proxy. In addition to this, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) completely manages maintenance activities for RDS Proxy such as upgrades and patching, which are carried out gradually in […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports high availability by using block-level replication in a Multi-AZ environment. Previously, to enable high availability on the instance, you had to configure an Always On Availability Group (AG) between two instances. Setting up and configuring Always On requires planning and expertise. With the […]

Many applications, including those built on modern serverless architectures, can have a large number of open connections to the database server and may open and close database connections at a high rate, exhausting database memory and compute resources. Databases can also suffer from transient failures, impacting application availability. Finally, applications need to maintain database credentials to […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system (OS) and database (DB) environment. Amazon RDS Custom is now available for the SQL Server database engine. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server automates setup, operation, […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Extended Events. Extended Events (XEvents) is a lightweight performance monitoring system that enables you to collect data to monitor and troubleshoot problems in SQL Server. Extended Events is automatically enabled for users with primary user privileges in Amazon RDS for SQL Server. This post […]