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Category: Amazon RDS Custom

Secure your data at rest on Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using transparent data encryption (TDE) or column-level encryption (CLE)

Customers in industries such as healthcare and financial services take full advantage of the built-in security features of SQL Server to meet their regulatory and compliance requirements. When migrating their database to the AWS Cloud, we often see customers asking for SQL Server security feature support such as TDE, column-level encryption on Amazon Relational Database […]

Configure Linked Servers on Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service that automates the setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud while granting you access to the underlying operating system and database environment. You can provision a Multi-AZ Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server instance for a highly available environment with automatic […]

Troubleshoot network connectivity to Amazon RDS Custom databases using VPC Reachability Analyzer

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where AWS resources such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom DB instances can be launched in a virtual network you define. When creating an Amazon RDS Custom DB instance, you have the option to create […]

Deploy Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle using Terraform modules

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. It provides the benefits of RDS automation with the elevated access needed for legacy, packaged, and custom applications. With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you have the freedom […]

How to deploy SQL Server Analysis Services on RDS Custom in a new VPC environment

A common use case for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is to offload the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing the underlying infrastructure of the cluster when running SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). SSAS is an analytical data engine, based on the VertiPaq technology which is used in decision support and business analytics.In this post, we explain how to launch and setup Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server and enable SSAS to run either Tabular or Multi-Dimensional model modes.

Explore the prerequisites required to create an Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server instance

Customers often ask us how they can create an RDS Custom for SQL Server database in their existing networking infrastructure. They want to ensure that the database servers are created within the security perimeter designed by their networking teams. They also want to understand different components and services involved when creating an RDS Custom for SQL Server instance. In this post, we demonstrate how to create an RDS Custom for SQL Server instance. We also show how to create the required prerequisites within an existing networking infrastructure. Amazon RDS Custom requires these prerequisites to create the necessary resources in your AWS account.

Use the DBMS_CLOUD package in Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle for direct Amazon S3 integration

In this post, we demonstrate how to use the DBMS_CLOUD package to transfer files between S3 buckets and directories in an RDS Custom for Oracle database. We also show how you can access data from Amazon S3 directly using Oracle features such as external tables and hybrid partition tables. The features provided by DBMS_CLOUD could vary between different Oracle releases, so pay close attention to the steps in the post and make sure you reference DBMS_CLOUD in the Oracle Database 19c documentation. To avoid confusion, the option discussed in this post is for RDS Custom for Oracle, not for RDS for Oracle. RDS for Oracle offers S3 integration.

Manage Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server CEV AMIs using EC2 Image Builder

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server allows you to use a custom engine version (CEV) by providing an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), which includes specific customizations and database media installed on it. In this post we provide you guidance and best practices to build, test, and distribute AMIs using an EC2 Image Builder pipeline.

Automate switchover of Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

Oracle E-Business Suite is a business application suite that includes financial, supply chain, human resources, and customer relationship management modules. Due to the application’s critical nature, it’s important to architect Oracle E-Business Suite for high availability and develop the ability to switch over the application and database as quickly as possible in order to minimize […]

Secure data at rest on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle with TDE – Part 2: Multi-tenant environments

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed implementing Oracle Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle with the local auto-login option in a database with the multi-tenant option disabled. In this post, we focus on outlining the implementation steps of TDE in an Oracle database with the […]