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Category: Amazon RDS Custom

Secure data at rest on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle with TDE – Part 1: non-CDB environments

In this first post of this two part series, we show you the options available to set up security using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to protect data at rest for an Oracle non-multi-tenant database running in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle. The second post will focus on the TDE implementation for […]

Configure Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Systems Manager for JD Edwards One-Click

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom automates database administration tasks and operations. RDS Custom makes it possible for you as a database administrator to access and customize your database environment and operating system. With RDS Custom, you can customize to meet the requirements of legacy, custom, and packaged applications. One way to configure your […]

Migrate Microsoft SQL Server SSIS Packages to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) provides a platform for users to create, extract, transform, and load workflows by connecting to various data sources like relational database management services, flat files, XML files, and more. Before loading into the destination system, users can copy, cleanse, and process the data. SSIS allows developers to create extract, […]

Use an Oracle Database Gateway to connect Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle to SQL Server

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle allows you to run Oracle databases on AWS, giving you some of the benefits of Amazon RDS automation and the freedom of changing configurations to match different use cases. You can customize your database, underlying server, and operating system configurations to accommodate the specific needs of […]

Migrate a multi-TB SQL Server database to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS

This is the first in a two-part series of posts on how to migrate a multi-TB database to Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that automates setup, operation, backups, high availability, and scaling of databases while granting access to the […]

Migrate on-premises SQL Server workloads to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using distributed availability groups

In this post, we provide a SQL Server Always On cluster database migration pattern solution to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server using distributed availability groups. This solution helps reduce the migration downtime through continuous data synchronization combined with a failover process. This post is not a high availability and disaster […]

Install additional software components on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service that provides the flexibility to customize your database, underlying server, and operating system configurations needed to support applications that require more control than what a typical managed relational database service provides. Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is built for legacy, custom, packaged applications, […]

Optimize your SQL Server costs by using bring your own media (BYOM) on Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server

Organizations are migrating their Microsoft SQL Server workloads to AWS managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server or Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, which makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. Customers often ask us how they can optimize Amazon […]

Migrate SQL Server databases in Azure to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using backup and bacpac files and Amazon S3

In this post we show you how to migrate from Azure to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. using the native backup and restore method. We also dive deep into the data-tier application backup package file. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and […]

Automate the configuration of Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using AWS Systems Manager

In our previous post Use a self-hosted Active Directory with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, we explained the manual steps to join Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server to a self-hosted Active Directory. We highlighted the importance of using repeatable, idempotent scripts because changes would be lost on new instances, […]