Category: Database

Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. It frees you to focus on your business logic and application features, leaving the heavy lifting to AWS. […]

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source relational database systems. The product of more than 30 years of development work, PostgreSQL has proven to be a highly reliable and robust database that can handle a large number of complicated data workloads. PostgreSQL is considered to be the primary open-source database choice when migrating from […]

The use of NoSQL databases has increased significantly in recent years as more and more organizations see NoSQL databases as solutions that free them from the constraints of a relational database management system (RDBMS). While the flexibility, agility, and performance of NoSQL databases are the main benefits triggering the shift towards them, the popularity of […]

Amazon Neptune now supports the Apache TinkerPop 3.4.1 release. In this post, you will find examples of new features in the Gremlin query and traversal language such as text predicates, changes to valueMap, nested repeat steps, named repeat steps, non-numerical comparisons, and changes to the order step. It is worth pointing out that TinkerPop 3.4 […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database that allows for a flexible schema. This means that items in the same table may differ from each other in terms of what attributes are present for each item. In an earlier AWS Blog post, we looked at the performance impact of attribute counts per item. Recently, when helping […]

Most relational database systems—and some non-relational database systems—have a construct known as a unique key or a unique constraint. This feature ensures that all values in a column or field are unique across rows. For example, if you have a User table, you might have a UUID as a primary key that uniquely identifies each […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Aurora natively provide encryption at rest to protect the underlying storage of database instances, automated backups, Read Replicas, and snapshots. However, some customers may have greater data protection requirements which require encrypting data in use. For example, encryption is required where tokenization solutions do not fit, such as when […]

SQL Server on Windows allows you to configure SQL Server instances to use Windows authentication with Active Directory accounts. This post addresses how to do that with SQL Server 2017 on Amazon Linux 2. This solution allows you to log in with your Active Directory accounts using Windows authentication to manage SQL Server Linux instances […]

Application developers and system administrators replicate data across datastores to migrate, refresh, and mask data. For most organizations, data replication is a complex, multiphase process, including assessment, schema conversion, script conversion, data migration, functional testing, performance tuning, and other tasks. Multiple tools are available to support data replication. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) helps you quickly […]

Attempting to connect to SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) may sometimes fail with the error “The Reporting Services instance could not be found.” This error can happen when using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) installed with SSRS, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). This post explains the step-by-step procedures on how […]