Category: Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL version 10 end of life is approaching. If you’re currently running your Aurora or RDS instances on PostgreSQL 10, you must upgrade your databases. Announcement: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10.x end of life is January 31, 2023 Announcement: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 10.x […]

Our customers have seen many cases where network bandwidth between the MySQL client and database becomes the source of bottleneck. This leads to increase in the query latencies causing performance impact. This is especially seen for workloads which have high network bandwidth requirement. MySQL and MariaDB solve this problem by allowing you to compress traffic […]

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 […]

We recently wrapped up another successful edition of re:Invent, AWS’s flagship cloud event of the year, offering cloud computing enthusiasts an opportunity to hear the latest in cloud technology, as well as get hands-on training from the experts, and hear directly from leaders across the AWS organization. At this year’s re:Invent, AWS announced several exciting […]

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 […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server supports column-level data encryption. Column-level encryption provides encryption at a more granular level of data that can be applied on all or selected columns. With column-level encryption, you can define different encryption keys for each different column. You can use encryption in SQL Server for connections, […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to provision a logically isolated section of theAWS Cloud where AWS resources such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB instances can be launched in a virtual network you define. When creating an Amazon RDS DB instance, you […]

Customers use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition for hosting their Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database workloads. Considering the scale at which today’s applications operate, databases can grow to hundreds of terabytes in a very short span of time. Databases grow in size because the majority share of […]

Capturing database resource utilization helps you understand database workload characteristics and usage trends. This data acts as a reference point that can be compared with later measurements to identify and investigate performance issues. Deviations could potentially indicate an area of concern that requires performance tuning, database maintenance, or configuration changes. Resource utilization typically captures metrics […]

In today’s cloud-enabled enterprise, multiple teams take on the responsibility of creating and managing databases. The challenge that you may face is the enforcement of your company’s standard configuration policies—how do you make sure that all databases are following the database configuration standards consistently? This is where AWS Config can help. In this post, I […]