Category: Amazon RDS

If you are using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), you may wonder about how to determine the best time to modify instance configurations. This may include determining configurations such as instance class, storage size, or storage type. Amazon RDS supports various database engines, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and Amazon Aurora. Amazon CloudWatch can […]

The PostgreSQL community continues its consistent cadence of yearly major releases with PostgreSQL 12. PostgreSQL 12 introduces features opening up new development opportunities while simplifying the management of some already robust capabilities, such as new ways to query JSON data, enhancements to indexes, and better performance with partitioned tables. In this post, I take a […]

Historically, the PostgreSQL community releases a new major version yearly, and with that, has a defined end of life (EOL) policy of older major versions. This allows version and upgrade decisions to be made on dates known well into the future. The community EOL policy is to support a major version for 5 years after […]

If you are using PostgreSQL earlier than 9.4, you are using an unsupported version of PostgreSQL, and may have limited options to migrate or replicate your databases in Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. This is primarily because PostgreSQL versions older than 9.4 can’t perform logical replication. Bucardo is an open-source utility that can replicate […]

This blog post was last reviewed and updated March, 2022, to cover SQL tools via scripts. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) enables you to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage database access for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL clusters. Database administrators can associate database users with IAM users and roles. With IAM database authentication, […]

How can you simplify the setup and maintenance and reduce the costs of AWS Managed Microsoft AD directories, while also strengthen the security of your Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server DB instances? AWS announced that you can now join your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instances deployed across multiple AWS accounts […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon RDS supports publishing PostgreSQL logs to Amazon CloudWatch for versions 9.6.6 and above. Aurora PostgreSQL supports publishing logs to CloudWatch Logs for versions 9.6.12 and above, and versions 10.7 and above. By live streaming this data from CloudWatch to Amazon Elasticsearch […]

This post was originally published on December 20, 2019 and has been updated as of March 4, 2020. Please see new dates and suggested timeline below. IMPORTANT UPDATE: If you are experiencing connectivity issues after the RDS Root CA expires, please skip down to the What do I have to do to maintain connectivity? section. […]

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source relational database systems. It is considered to be one of the top database choices when customers migrate from commercial databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. AWS provides two managed PostgreSQL options: Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora. In addition to providing managed PostgreSQL services, AWS also […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate data from databases on-premises to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). You can also use it to migrate data between heterogeneous or homogeneous database engines, among other things. Businesses of all sizes use AWS to enable faster disaster recovery (DR) of their critical IT systems without having […]