Category: PostgreSQL compatible

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When using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, managing updates is an ongoing management process for database administrators. Minor version updates are a component of this process—they contain database patches, and bug fixes are a much more common management task to orchestrate. AWS provides mechanisms that assist in applying updates, but you are able to decide when […]

This post is a continuation of Federated query support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL – Part 1. To recap, in 2003, the SQL standard added a new specification called SQL/MED (SQL Management of External Data). In 2011, PostgreSQL 9.1 was released with read-only support of this standard, and PostgreSQL 9.3 added […]

AWS launched Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (Amazon DMA) to accelerate your journey to AWS databases and analytics services and achieve cloud adoption benefits such as cost savings and performance improvements. Amazon DMA has assisted thousands of customers globally to migrate their workloads (database and application) to AWS databases and analytics services. In this post, we […]

To migrate an Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, you usually need to perform both automated and manual tasks. The automated tasks include schema conversion and data migration, which can be handled with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), respectively. The manual tasks involve post-schema AWS […]

Many customers are using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition for running their business-critical database workloads in AWS. Aurora PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, and ACID-compliant relational database engine that combines the speed, reliability, and manageability of Amazon Aurora with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. In this post, we present a database authorization solution […]

Collecting database performance metrics is critical for troubleshooting any performance issues. AWS offers several services to gather and analyze database performance metrics, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Enhanced Monitoring, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon RDS Performance Insights. While these services provide detailed insights on how your database is performing, sometimes you need a different […]

In a multi-tenant environment, the process of identifying the database isolation strategy most suitable for your workload is essential. Your isolation strategy ensures that one tenant cannot access another tenant’s data, and defines how the actions of tenants affect one another. The isolation strategy is driven by a combination of business, domain, security, cost, resiliency, […]

This is a guest post by Sagi Tsofan, Senior Software Engineer at Wiz in partnership with AWS. At Wiz, it’s all about scale. Our platform ingests metadata and telemetry for tens of billions of cloud resources every day. Our agentless scanner collects massive amounts of data that needs to be processed very efficiently. As our […]

Organizations that adopt centralized authentication mechanisms gain the following benefits: Enhanced security posture: Centralized authentication enables quick addition or removal of user access throughout the network, giving organizations improved security and the ability to respond quickly to security threats. Scalability: By controlling access through a centralized database, organizations can scale their network and minimize performance […]