AWS Database Blog
Category: Amazon EC2
Reading Amazon S3 Data from Oracle on Amazon EC2
When you’re working with AWS services, Amazon S3 is the first choice to store text data files. In the past, to access S3 data, first you’d download the files and then perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) to load the data into Oracle. This approach has two drawbacks. It takes time to download and perform […]
Implement Linked Servers with Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server
December 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Linked servers allow Microsoft SQL Server to run SQL Server statements on other instances of database servers. In this post, we focus on connectivity to other instances of SQL Server in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), hosted in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), […]
A Large-Scale Cross-Regional Migration of NoSQL DB Clusters
Andrey Zaychikov is solutions architect at Amazon Web Services In this blog post, I will share experiences from a cross-regional migration of large-scale NoSQL database clusters (from Europe to the U.S.). The migration was a joint project implemented by the Ops team of our reference customer, FunCorp, and AWS Solutions Architects. “Our flagship product, iFunny, […]


