Author: Sushant Deshmukh

Organizations running SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS sometimes need to migrate their databases to different AWS accounts. This migration becomes more complex when mission-critical data requires column-level encryption to meet compliance requirements. In this post, we demonstrate how you can migrate your symmetric key-encrypted database on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to another AWS account without compromising security. The solution we present can also help you implement symmetric key encryption on a new database in Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

In this post, we present proactive measures for optimizing AWS DMS implementations from the initial setup phase. By using strategic planning and architectural foresight, organizations can enhance their replication system’s reliability, improve performance, and avoid common pitfalls.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, fully managed, purpose-built time-series database that makes it straightforward to store and analyze trillions of time-series data points per day. Timestream saves you time and cost in managing the lifecycle of time-series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based […]

In this post, we show how you can encrypt an Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition database from an existing unencrypted cluster using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) with minimal downtime. Amazon Aurora encrypted DB clusters provide an additional layer of data protection by securing your data from unauthorized access to the underlying storage. You can […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) version 3.4.7 and above includes support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) VPC endpoints and makes it easier to maintain end-to-end network configuration within the same AWS region for replication tasks. To learn more about VPC endpoints, refer to Connect your VPC to services using AWS PrivateLink. In […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a widely used AWS service to migrate data into the AWS Cloud from on-premises databases or within AWS databases in the cloud. For smooth migrations using AWS DMS, it’s imperative to monitor the AWS DMS resources and tasks, specifically for errors and warnings. Monitoring AWS DMS task via […]