AWS Database Blog
Category: PostgreSQL compatible
Migrating Oracle Autonomous Transactions to PostgreSQL
July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Migrating and operating a database includes layers of complexity and thorough planning. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility can help you manage a variety of use cases. While migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL, it’s very common to come across Oracle Autonomous Transactions. This […]
Replace SQL Server Agent Job with AWS Step Functions
If you’re migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, you might have discovered that the SQL agent jobs cannot be easily moved. The job agent tools are not supported for Aurora PostgreSQL. You can overcome this limitation though, by using AWS Step Functions to replace a SQL agent job. In this blog post […]
How New Innovations migrated their residency management platform from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
New Innovations has built a business around shared ideas and beliefs that all point to a larger purpose—empowering medical educators and administrators to provide quality medical education. Intelligence is advancing to the point where there is no separation between task and technology, and the result is that medical trainees and educators can be relieved of mundane administrative duties. Our partners in medical education work with us so that one day this ideal future becomes a reality.
The future is not far away, and thanks to AWS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, our company has been able to build an infrastructure that scales to meet our customers’ demands. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) made our transition to Aurora PostgreSQL a seamless experience for both our customers and our software developers, while minimizing the risk. We used AWS DMS to fully migrate 700+ instances of Microsoft SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL. In addition, Amazon RDS Performance Insights now gives us excellent visibility into our database layer and allows us to respond quickly to any abnormalities.
How to use Amazon Aurora to drive 3x latency improvement for end users
Born on AWS InfoScout was born on AWS, being along for the journey since its inception in 2011. It all started with a single Amazon EC2 instance to collect receipts uploaded from friends and family. Seven years later, we now manage 150+ AWS instances to support our mobile applications, data pipelines, machine learning models, and […]
Failover with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Replication, failover, resilience, disaster recovery, and backups—it can be challenging to achieve any or all of these in a traditional or non-cloud-based architecture. In addition, they sometimes require a considerable re-engineering effort. Due to the high implementation and infrastructure costs that are involved, some businesses are compelled to tier their applications so that only the […]
How to migrate BLOB and CLOB tables from Oracle to PostgreSQL using Ora2pg and AWS DMS
Many enterprises are considering migrating their Oracle databases to PostgreSQL because of the close compatibility between the platforms and the enterprises’ desire to reduce licensing costs. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility make it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud in a cost-efficient manner. AWS […]
How to set up a single pgpool endpoint for reads and writes with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora provides endpoints for the primary DB instance (the cluster endpoint) and for Read Replicas (the reader endpoint). Aurora updates the cluster endpoint automatically so that it always points to the primary instance. The reader endpoint load balances read operations across all available Read Replicas. Amazon Aurora Replicas typically have less than 100 ms […]
A quick introduction to migrating from an Oracle database to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database
In this post, we build an AWS CloudFormation stack to deploy resources to help demonstrate the process of migrating from an Oracle database to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. Because this is a heterogeneous migration, we follow a two-phase approach similar to what is detailed in How to Migrate Your Oracle Database to PostgreSQL. The […]
Challenges When Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL—and How to Overcome Them
David Rader is the vice president of engineering at OpenSCG. OpenSCG is an AWS Consulting Partner and a leading expert in PostgreSQL, helping customers migrate to, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL and other data platforms on premises and in the cloud. In previous posts, we looked at the overall approach for a successful database migration and […]
Stream data into an Aurora PostgreSQL Database using AWS DMS and Amazon Data Firehose
August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Using AWS Database Migration […]









