Category: Compute

In this post, we discuss integer sequence overflow, its causes, and—most importantly—how to efficiently set up alerts using Amazon SNS and use AWS Lambda to resolve such issues in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

In this post, we show how to implement automatic conflict detection and resolution (Auto-CDR) for Oracle GoldenGate bi-directional replication between Amazon RDS for Oracle databases.

You can create an Amazon RDS for Db2 instance by using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS CloudFormation, Terraform by Hashicorp, AWS Lambda functions, or other methods. One of the prerequisites for creating an RDS for Db2 instance is to configure the virtual private cloud (VPC) appropriately. This post shows how to create a VPC with best practices for any Amazon RDS database in general and Amazon RDS for Db2 in particular through a one-click automated deployment.

With Amazon RDS for Db2, you can seamlessly authenticate your users and groups with or without Kerberos authentication using a single AWS Microsoft AD directory that can serve multiple accounts. In this post, we use AWS Managed Microsoft AD from an AWS account to provide Microsoft AD authentication to Amazon RDS for Db2 in a different account.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL currently supports a variety of Community MySQL major versions including 5.7, 8.0, and 8.4 which present many different features and bug fixes. Upgrading from one major version to another requires careful consideration and planning. For a complete list of compatible major versions, see Supported MySQL major versions […]

In this post, we demonstrate how to set up an event-driven workflow to run stored procedures for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with AWS Lambda to bridge this gap by securely connecting to an Aurora PostgreSQL database using AWS Secrets Manager, making sure that stored procedures can be managed in the cloud. We explore the step-by-step process, discuss the advantages of this approach, and address the limitations of invoking stored procedures from Lambda functions.

By combining DynamoDB streams with Lambda, you can build responsive, scalable, and cost-effective systems that automatically react to data changes in real time. In this post, we explore best practices for architecting event-driven systems using DynamoDB and Lambda. DynamoDB provides two options for capturing data changes (CDC): DynamoDB streams and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS). In this post, we focus exclusively on DynamoDB streams.

Amazon RDS provides different instance types optimized to fit different relational database use cases. You can modify provisioned instances manually from the Amazon RDS console or using an API. When modifications need to be done on a recurring basis, such as scaling an instance up and down during predefined periods of time, you can automate the task using EventBridge Scheduler and Lambda. In this post, we present a solution using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler and AWS Lambda that allows you to schedule a programmatic modification of a DB instance with specific tags.

In this post, we explore the fundamentals of building containerized applications for Amazon DocumentDB using Quarkus with the Panache ORM library. We cover the processes of containerizing your code, building an image, and deploying it using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate.

GoldenGate supports Classic and Microservices Architectures. In Part 1 of this series, we covered high availability for GoldenGate classic architecture in AWS. In this post, we discuss a reference architecture for GoldenGate Microservices Architecture (MA) in AWS. The GoldenGate Hub is a widely used deployment model that simplifies operations and lessens the use of system resources on both the source and target systems. This is in contrast to the conventional method where GoldenGate components run directly on the source and target systems.