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Automate benchmark tests for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Optimizing a database is an important activity for new and existing application workloads. You need to take cost, operations, performance, security, and reliability into consideration. Conducting benchmark tests help with these considerations. With Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, you can run multiple benchmark tests with different transaction characteristics matching your data access patterns. In this post, […]

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Send webhooks to SaaS applications from Amazon Aurora via Amazon EventBridge

Customers developing software as a service (SaaS) applications often need to send outgoing webhooks (HTTP call-backs in response to events) to other SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Marketo, or ServiceNow. When processing webhooks, you often have to implement custom logic or services to enqueue and emit these events. This introduces additional complexity and operational overhead. […]

Set up highly available PgBouncer and HAProxy with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL readers

Relational database engines are typically monolithic by design, therefore the easiest method to horizontally scale a workload on them is to scale read operations with multiple read replicas. Some of the strongest motivations for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adoption include low replication lag and the ability to spin up a reader node in minutes regardless […]

Upgrade your Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database, Part 2: Using the pglogical extension

This is the second of a two-part post. In Part 1, we discussed various approaches to upgrade Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition databases and explained the high-level steps in these approaches. In this post, we demonstrate how to upgrade an RDS for PostgreSQL database using the pglogical […]

Upgrade your Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database, Part 1: Comparing upgrade approaches

If you need to upgrade your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database to a newer version, you can choose from in-place and out-of-place upgrade options. You may prefer either in-place upgrades (where you don’t have to create a new DB instance) or out-of-place upgrades depending on the […]

Speed up time series data ingestion by partitioning tables on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

In the post Designing high-performance time series data tables on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, we explained how to use partitioned tables as a strategy to improve performance when handling time series data. In this post, we focus on data ingestion and why partitioned tables help with data ingestion. PostgreSQL has had the ability to handle […]

Work with files in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

An Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL migration into the AWS Cloud can be a multistage process with different technologies and skills involved, starting from the assessment stage to the cutover stage. For more information about the migration process, see Database Migration—What Do You Need to […]

Migrate Azure SQL Database to Amazon Aurora using Azure Data Sync Agent and AWS DMS

Increasingly, customers are looking to break free from their legacy database (e.g., Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server) and move to a cloud-native database such as open-source engines running on AWS. One of the preferred destinations for this data is Amazon Aurora. In this post, we walk through a migration of a Microsoft Azure SQL database […]

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL parameters, Part 4: ANSI compatibility options

Organizations today have a strategy to migrate from traditional databases and as they plan their migration, they don’t want to compromise on performance, availability, and security features. Amazon Aurora is a cloud native relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. […]

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL parameters, Part 3: Optimizer parameters

Organizations today have a strategy to migrate from traditional databases and as they plan their migration, they don’t want to compromise on performance, availability, and security features. Amazon Aurora is a cloud native relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. […]