Category: Amazon RDS

In this post we introduce the blue/green deployment plugin for the AWS JDBC Driver, a built-in plugin that automatically handles connection routing, traffic management, and switchover detection during blue/green deployment switchovers. We show you how to configure and use the plugin to minimize downtime during database maintenance operations during blue/green deployment switchovers.

In this post, we demonstrate how you can implement a comprehensive monitoring strategy for Amazon RDS for SQL Server by combining AWS native tools with SQL Server diagnostic utilities. We explore AWS services including AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights, Enhanced Monitoring, and Amazon RDS events, alongside native SQL Server tools such as Query Store, Dynamic Management Views (DMVs), and Extended Events. By implementing these monitoring capabilities, you can identify potential bottlenecks before they impact your applications, optimize resource utilization, and maintain consistent database performance as your business scales.

In this post, we discuss configuring AWS DMS tasks to migrate HierarchyID columns from SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible efficiently.

The ability to invoke Lambda functions in response to Amazon RDS for SQL Server database events enables powerful use cases such as triggering automated workflows, sending real-time notifications, calling external APIs, and orchestrating complex business processes. In this post, we demonstrate how to enable this integration by using Amazon CloudWatch subscription filters, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SNS to invoke Lambda functions from RDS for SQL Server stored procedures, helping you build responsive, data-driven applications.

In this post, you will learn how to address IP address exhaustion challenges when working with Amazon RDS Proxy. For customers experiencing IP exhaustion with RDS Proxy, migrating to IPv6 address space can be an effective solution if your workload supports IPv6. This post focuses on workloads that cannot support IPv6 address space and provides an alternative approach using IPv4 subnet expansion. The solution focuses on expanding your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) CIDR range, establishing new subnets, and executing a carefully planned switching of your proxy to a new subnet configuration.

In this post, you learn how to select the appropriate code page and collation sequence when migrating from Db2 mainframe (z/OS) to Amazon RDS for Db2 on Linux. You explore the differences between mainframe CCSIDs and Db2 LUW code pages, understand character compatibility requirements, and discover how to prevent data truncation and maintain consistent sorting behavior across platforms.

In this post, we show you how to build a centralized dashboard for monitoring Amazon RDS configurations across your organization by using AWS Config and Amazon Quick Suite. This solution delivers detailed insights across different areas, such as summary metrics, backup configurations, security posture, engine and support information, extended configurations, and resource tagging.

In this post, we help you plan your upgrade from PostgreSQL version 13 before standard support ends on February 28, 2026. We discuss the key benefits of upgrading, breaking changes to consider, and multiple upgrade strategies to choose from.

In 2023, Tradeshift migrated one of its core PostgreSQL databases from self-managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. The decision followed mounting operational risks and performance limits that made the existing setup increasingly unsustainable. Tradeshift needed a managed solution that could reduce downtime risk, improve observability, and simplify ongoing operations. Amazon RDS met those requirements. In this post, we explain why we migrated to Amazon RDS, how we executed the migration, and highlight the invaluable benefits it delivered in terms of safety, flexibility, and audit compliance.

Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL provide built-in audit logging capabilities, but customers might need to export and store these logs for long-term retention and analysis. Amazon S3 offers an ideal destination, providing durability, cost-effectiveness, and integration with various analytics tools. In this post, we explore two approaches for exporting MySQL audit logs to Amazon S3: either using batching with a native export to Amazon S3 or processing logs in real time with Amazon Data Firehose.