Category: Amazon RDS Custom

Note: Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Multi-AZ deployment starting July 1st, 2025. For details, refer to the What’s New post and RDS Custom for Oracle User Guide for Multi-AZ deployment. Amazon Relational Database (Amazon RDS) Custom automates database administration tasks and operations. RDS Custom makes it possible for you as a database administrator […]

One of the steps in migrating a database to the cloud involves transferring existing data from the source (on premises) to the target (cloud). For medium and large databases, such as those ranging from hundreds of gigabytes to 5 terabytes, speed of data transfer matters. One of the challenges is to minimize the downtime of […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (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. It helps automate the setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud while granting access to the database and underlying operating […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. Amazon RDS Custom now supports the Oracle Multitenant option on Oracle Database version 19c using Enterprise Edition. With this release, an RDS Custom for […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports high availability by using block-level replication in a Multi-AZ environment. Previously, to enable high availability on the instance, you had to configure an Always On Availability Group (AG) between two instances. Setting up and configuring Always On requires planning and expertise. With the […]

Administering databases in self-managed environments such as on premises or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) requires you to spend time and resources on database administration tasks such as provisioning, scaling, patching, backups, and configuring for high availability. Organizations are moving their self-managed Oracle databases to AWS managed database services to offload undifferentiated heavy lifting […]

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. While working with customers, we have observed use cases that require a connection to be kept with […]

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Amazon RDS Custom allows you to access and customize your database server host and operating system, for example, by applying special patches and changing the database software settings to support third-party […]

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 […]

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 […]