Category: Amazon Aurora

Monthly releases are always hectic, and companies face challenges with SQL deployments and schema versioning. It’s very time-consuming when multiple developers are developing code and need to run multiple SQL files across multiple production databases. To maintain environment integrity and consistency across applications, code and schema changes need to sync across multiple non-production and production […]

Many organizations prefer infrastructure as code (IaC) for provisioning and maintaining IT infrastructure. With IaC, you can replicate DevOps practices for application code such as storing the infrastructure code in a source control system, automated testing, and automated deployment through a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. AWS CloudFormation is an IaC service that […]

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. With RDS Proxy, you can handle unpredictable surges in database traffic that might otherwise cause issues due to oversubscribing connections or creating new connections […]

An Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition cluster consists of a primary/writer node and up to 15 reader nodes in a Region. You may offload read-only workloads to reader nodes to scale-out reads. Long-running queries on reader nodes that are accessing tables with high transactional activities on the primary node can cause conflicts, and lead to undesirable […]

This guest post is co-authored by Ryota Shima, Application Architect, and Kazuki Matsumura, Lead Architect at NRI Digital. NRI Digital has a wide variety of systems in production, both on-premises and cloud-based. Among them, many systems are built on AWS, and Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are often used as the […]

When you use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora, you may have noticed that the IP addresses of your database instances keep changing. There are several reasons for this. The IP address changes when the primary database of Amazon RDS fails over to a standby database. Furthermore, when Amazon RDS is restarted […]

The structured data industry has been experiencing exponential data growth year by year. It’s important for the relational database users to get smart with its data storage footprint by understanding data relevance while keeping its business needs in mind. Data archive is the critical part of data management, as it enables us to keep business […]

As part of migrating and modernizing your databases, you may continue to use your stored procedures and scheduling jobs that consolidate data from remote instances into your centralized data store. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) helps you convert your legacy Oracle and SQL Server functions to their open-source equivalent. But how do you continue […]

Heterogeneous database migration is a multistage process, which usually includes assessment, database schema conversion, data migration, functional testing, performance tuning, and many other steps spanning across multiple teams. Migration from IBM Db2 LUW to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL is heterogeneous in nature, and traditionally follows similar […]

AEVI took the journey to migrate to AWS. In their own words, “AEVI provides merchant-facing businesses—banks, acquirers, PSPs, ISOs, ISVs, and others—with a platform that enables merchants to run their business smarter by giving them easy access to any payment technology and business solution for the best in-store customer experience. AEVI’s Platform for Smart Merchant […]