Category: Amazon RDS

Maintaining database security is indispensable for the success of any organization. Implementing database user authentication and authorization is an important step in securing a database system. Conventional database authentication is based on a username-password mechanism. This process requires constant time and effort from both DBAs and end users to manage the credentials. In contrast, incorporating […]

Organizations that adopt centralized authentication mechanisms gain the following benefits: Enhanced security posture: Centralized authentication enables quick addition or removal of user access throughout the network, giving organizations improved security and the ability to respond quickly to security threats. Scalability: By controlling access through a centralized database, organizations can scale their network and minimize performance […]

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 […]

Many customers have Oracle multi-tenant databases in their on-premises environments, and may be looking to use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle features while using multi-tenant databases. As of August 2022, Amazon RDS for Oracle supports a subset of multi-tenant architecture called single-tenant architecture. A multi-tenant architecture enables an Oracle database to function […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports database activity streams to provide a near-real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. To protect your database from internal and external threats, and to meet compliance and regulatory requirements, you can easily integrate the database activity stream with third-party database activity monitoring […]

An Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL migration is a multi-stage process with different technologies and skills involved, starting from the assessment stage to the cutover stage. For more information about the database migration process, refer to the following posts: Database Migration—What Do You Need […]

Linked servers allow Microsoft SQL Server to run SQL Server statements on other instances of database servers. They are a good solution when you need to implement database sharding without needing to create custom application code or directly load from remote data sources. In this post, we focus on creating linked server access to Amazon […]

Today, you can achieve cross-Region disaster recovery (DR) using the Amazon RDS for SQL Server Cross Region Read Replica feature, but it’s only available for workloads running on SQL Server Enterprise edition (EE). You can also use the cross-Region automated backups feature to develop your DR strategy, but recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point […]

In this post, we discuss AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and how you can use Amazon CloudWatch and logs to monitor the performance and health of a replication task. Additionally, we discuss how to set up CloudWatch Alarms for an AWS DMS task as well as instance related metrics that we configure to receive […]

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 […]