Category: MySQL compatible

December 2022: This post was updated with support for blue/green deployments for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora. November 2022: This post was updated with changes introduced with the launch of Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition versions 2 and 3, and in-place upgrade from version 2 to 3. Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition version 1 (with MySQL 5.6 […]

Migrating your database from IBM Db2 LUW to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, or Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition is a complex, multistage process, which usually includes assessment, database schema conversion, data migration, functional testing, performance tuning, and many other steps spanning across the stages. You can use AWS […]

Many organizations with critical workloads and global footprints need a strategy to tolerate Region-wide outages. This requires making a trade-off between availability, Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and cost. You should consider using a tiered approach to meet your compliance and budgetary needs. When developing a cross-Region disaster recovery (DR) strategy, an important consideration is the […]

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database, offered as part of the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). With a managed service like Aurora, customers can free their teams from time-consuming database tasks like server provisioning, patching, and backups. Amazon Aurora provide continuous monitoring, self-healing storage, and automated scaling to help […]

The Kubernetes container orchestration system provides numerous resources for managing applications in distributed environments. Many of these applications need a searchable storage system for their data that is secure, durable, and performant. Developers want to focus on continuously improving their apps rather than having to worry about the operational functions of their databases. They also […]

In this post, we demonstrate how to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) JDBC Driver for MySQL, which allows an application to take advantage of the features of clustered MySQL databases. You can use this driver as a drop-in replacement for the MySQL Connector/J Driver to connect to an Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition cluster. Amazon […]

This is a guest post by Jeremy Welch, Data Software Engineer Sr. Staff on the Cloud, Data Management And Governance team with Panasonic Avionics Corporation, in partnership with AWS Sr. Database Solutions Architect Saikat Banerjee and Sr. Partner SA (Database) Venkatesh Periyathambi. Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC) is the world’s leading supplier of in-flight entertainment and […]

MySQL is one of the most popular open-source relational databases in the world. Many customers choose to run their MySQL workload in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL because it takes care of heavy lifting tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, configuration, monitoring, backups, and scaling. Amazon Aurora is a great […]

This is a guest post co-written by Mayank Lahiri (Ph.D), Software Architect at Twilio Inc. Twilio, a trailblazer in customer engagement and communication services, sustains exponential growth of its billing platform on Amazon Aurora. Twilio enables software engineers to programmatically make and receive phone and video calls, send and receive text messages and emails, and […]

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to reflect a new parameter change in MySQL Community 8.0.28 that impacts Amazon Aurora MySQL release. MySQL 8.0 has introduced TempTable as the new, default internal temporary table storage engine to speed up query processing. The MySQL query optimizer creates temporary tables internally to store intermediate datasets […]