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Category: Amazon RDS Custom

Enable Kerberos authentication with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle – Part 2

In the first post of this series, Enable Kerberos authentication with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle – Part 1, we showed you how to implement Kerberos authentication with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle to centralize the storage and management of credentials across multiple databases and improve your organization’s overall security profile. In this post, we […]

Improve observability by using Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server with Telegraf and Amazon Grafana

You can use open source monitoring solutions like Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana to monitor your applications and databases running on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). In this post, we explain how you can leverage these tools on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. Use of open source software […]

Implement active-active replication with RDS Custom for Oracle: Part 1 – High Availability

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying OS and DB environment. With RDS Custom for Oracle, you can now access and customize your database server host and operating system, for example by applying special patches and changing the […]

Implement active-active replication with RDS Custom for Oracle: Part 2 – High Availability & Disaster Recovery

In this post, we advance the architecture that was discussed in Implement active-active replication with RDS Custom for Oracle: Part 1 – High Availability, where we implemented an Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle solution with multi-master and high availability. This post will show you how to add high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) using Oracle […]

Persist your OS-level customization within Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Custom Engine Version (CEV)

Customers running their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server ask us how they can persist changes at the operating system (OS) level even if Amazon RDS chooses to perform a host replacement. In the context of RDS Custom for SQL Server, a host replacement is when […]

Automate tasks in Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle using AWS Systems Manager documents

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying OS and DB environment. You may need to modify the default configuration of an RDS Custom for Oracle instance to meet various requirements, such as enable database features or options, change […]

Monitor Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle with Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying Operating System (OS) and database environment. With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you can customize the database server host and OS and apply special patches or change database software settings to […]

Enable Kerberos authentication with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle – Part 1

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle allows you the flexibility to configure the database authentication method that can help you meet your security needs. A common and traditional method is to use database authentication via user names and passwords, but this method requires more effort from both administrators and users to manage, […]

Migrate on-premises SQL Server to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using native backup and restore and Amazon S3

Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database (DB) environment. Amazon RDS Custom is now available for the SQL Server database engine. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server automates the setup, operation, […]

Migrate your SQL Server workload with CLR integration to AWS

Common language runtime (CLR) integration is an option to host .NET code within SQL Server programmatic objects like stored procedures, functions, and triggers, and adding user-defined data types. Since its introduction in SQL Server 2005, CLR integration has gained popularity within the SQL Server community for its additional flexibility and options to import .NET code […]