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Category: Amazon Aurora

Build generative AI applications with Amazon Aurora and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock is the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundational models (FMs). FMs are trained on vast quantities of data, allowing them to be used to answer questions on a variety of subjects. However, if you want to use an FM to answer questions about your private data that you […]

Build a real-time, low-code anomaly detection pipeline for time series data using Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift ML, and Amazon SageMaker

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) revolution has transformed the way various industries such as manufacturing and automobile work. Industry 4.0—also called the Fourth Industrial Revolution or 4IR—is the next phase in the digitization of the manufacturing sector, driven by disruptive trends including the rise of data and connectivity, analytics, human-machine interaction, and improvements in […]

How ktown4u built a custom auto scaling architecture using an Amazon Aurora mixed-configuration cluster to respond to sudden traffic spikes

Ktown4u is an e-commerce company that sells fast-growing K-Pop and Hallyu (Korean-Wave) products all over the globe. Since its launch in 2002, the company has grown to over 5 million members and 5,000 fan clubs across 200 countries with 6 languages. Since transitioning from B2B to B2C, the company has grown 15-fold in a short […]

Use the tds_fdw extension to migrate data from SQL Server to PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL has become the preferred open-source relational database for many enterprise companies and startups, powering leading business and mobile applications. Many customers choose PostgreSQL as the target database when migrating from commercial engines such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. AWS offers Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition […]

Upgrade to Amazon Aurora MySQL version 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility)

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition version 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) is the most current major version supported on Amazon Aurora MySQL. You can use Amazon Aurora MySQL version 3 to get the latest MySQL-compatible features and performance improvements. MySQL 8.0 introduces several new features, including JSON functions, window functions, common table expressions (CTEs), and role-based […]

PostgreSQL 11 upgrade strategies for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL version 11 end of standard support is February 29, 2024. See the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announcements to upgrade your databases: Announcement: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 11.x end of support is February 29, 2024 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 11 […]

Migrate rows with unique constraints to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

In a relational database management system, a unique key is a set of one or more attributes (columns) that uniquely identifies each row in a table. It ensures that no two rows in the table can have the same values for the specified attributes. The following are the features of a unique key: Uniqueness – […]

Build a mortgage-backed securities data model using Amazon Neptune

As organizations adopt modern application architectures such as microservices, application teams tend to retrofit one-size-fits-all databases. The mortgage industry is going through unprecedented transformation due to changing generation technologies such as API adoption. In the mortgage industry, API-enabled software allows lenders, issuers, borrowers, and more to integrate different functionalities into their portal, meaning they bring […]

Migrate JSON data from Oracle’s CLOB to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Migrating databases from Oracle to either Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL presents a unique challenge when migrating JSON data. Oracle CLOB data type can contain both well-formed and invalid JSON, whereas the PostgreSQL JSON and JSONB data type requires JSON data to be correctly formatted according to […]

Intuit’s implementation of Amazon Aurora mixed-configuration cluster: Achieving high availability, disaster recovery, and up to 55% cost savings

This post was co-written with Rajesh Saluja, Principal Engineer at Intuit. Intuit is the global financial technology environment that powers prosperity for 100 million consumer and small business customers with TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp. Intuit has built on AWS since 2013 and has taken an “all-in” approach in its move to the cloud. […]