Category: Amazon RDS

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Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. With RDS Proxy, you can handle unpredictable surges in database traffic that might otherwise cause issues due to oversubscribing connections or creating new connections […]

Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL can involve several steps to ensure a smooth transition. A notable example is an Oracle collection, which is a feature that Oracle database developers commonly use. PostgreSQL does not directly support Oracle collections, and there currently isn’t an extension that adds this capability. There are several decisions you have to […]

When Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) launched in 2009, MySQL was the first engine supported on the platform. Since that time, customer use cases have grown and evolved. Amazon RDS for MySQL has supported replication to multiple targets for some time—now it also supports multi-source replication. In this post, we discuss multi-source replication on […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the AWS cloud. It’s a fully managed, durable database built for enterprise workloads at scale and frees you up to focus on application development. Amazon RDS is integrated with AWS CloudFormation which supports […]

PostgreSQL has become the preferred open-source relational database for many enterprise companies and startups, powering leading business and mobile applications. Many customers choose PostgreSQL as the target database when migrating from commercial engines such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. AWS offers Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition […]

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. A custom engine version (CEV) for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is a binary volume snapshot of a database engine and specific Amazon Machine […]

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL version 11 end of standard support is February 29, 2024. See the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announcements to upgrade your databases: Announcement: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 11.x end of support is February 29, 2024 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 11 […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server is an AWS managed database service that simplifies operating and managing Microsoft SQL Server databases. Amazon RDS for SQL Server provides value by handling the provisioning, management, and monitoring of SQL Server databases. Although this operational agility is valuable, data protection and security become even more […]

In a relational database management system, a unique key is a set of one or more attributes (columns) that uniquely identifies each row in a table. It ensures that no two rows in the table can have the same values for the specified attributes. The following are the features of a unique key: Uniqueness – […]