Category: Amazon RDS

AWS provides AWS organizations and AWS Landing Zone solutions to manage and automate new account creation. This helps you to create multiple AWS accounts separated based on applications, development, production, or organizations within a company. This approach helps with resource isolation and separating development from production, but makes it complex for some of the teams […]

December, 2022: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. Learn […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on VMware delivers managed SQL Server databases in on-premises VMware environments. Managing SQL Server can be complex and time-consuming, but RDS on VMware makes it easy to provision, scale, and operate SQL Server in VMware vSphere clusters. You can migrate your existing on-premises SQL Server databases to RDS on […]

PostgreSQL is one of the most widely used database engines and is supported by a very large and active community. It’s a viable open-source option to use compared to many commercial databases, which require heavy license costs. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition are AWS managed offerings that […]

Running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) automates time-consuming administration tasks such as installation, disk provisioning and management, patching, minor and major version upgrades, and backup and recovery of your SQL Server databases. Amazon RDS also offers high availability using a Multi-AZ solution, replicating data synchronously across different Availability Zones. Currently, […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. A highly performant database is key to delivering latency SLAs, so monitoring is critical. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. One of the key benefits  of AWS is the flexibility to provision the number of resources an application needs and scale up or down as requirements change. This requires monitoring your current resource utilization and having a policy to take actions when required. Without these proactive measures […]

Important AWS has announced the end-of-life date for Aurora Serverless v1: March 31st, 2025. We strongly recommend upgrading any Aurora Serverless v1 DB clusters to Aurora Serverless v2 before that date. The upgrade can involve a change in the major version number of the database engine. Thus, it’s important to plan, test, and implement this […]

Join us at re:Invent 2020, a free 3-week virtual conference, from November 30 to December 18. This year’s virtual conference is going to be the industry event of the year, offering five keynotes, 18 leadership sessions, and unlimited access to hundreds of sessions, including 10 sessions on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). In this […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. At Amazon, we listen to our customers and work backward from your needs. Our AWS Database Specialist Solutions Architect team helps you architect your database landscape. In this post, we address 11 frequently asked questions with videos from our Database Specialist Solutions Architects. Let’s begin the learning […]