Author: Viqash Adwani

In this post, we dive into the various architecture patterns and options available for both compute and storage layers while configuring your self-managed Oracle databases on Amazon EC2 to comply with your HA and DR requirements.

With Oracle Multitenant, you can consolidate standalone databases by either creating them as PDBs or migrating them to PDBs. Performance Insights has introduced a new PDB dimension to help you visualize and analyze the distribution of the load on individual PDBs within the CDB on a RDS for Oracle instance. Now, you can slice the database load metric by the PDB and SQL dimensions to identify the top queries running on each of the PDBs. In this post, we will discuss how to identify resource-intensive SQL queries at a PDB level on a visual dashboard in Performance Insights.

When thinking about modernizing an Oracle Database to an open-source database on AWS, options include Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, or Amazon Aurora. The choice of target database is usually dependent on three major factors: Database conversion or refactoring efforts The enterprise-wide decision on […]

Many customers deploy the Oracle Database to an on-premises data centers running general purpose hardware or a highly customized Oracle Exadata hardware. These Oracle database customers are now looking to migrate to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle, which is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, […]

You can use Splunk Cloud Platform to monitor your entire infrastructure, including database servers hosted in AWS, on premises, or both. In this post we provide you detailed steps on how Splunk can connect to Amazon CloudWatch Logs using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user credentials and pull database log files for Amazon Relational […]