Category: Amazon RDS

Many organizations around the world, such as government agencies, financial institutions, and non-profits, are looking for ways to protect their valuable data from ransomware attacks and natural disasters. In addition, many businesses are required to maintain their data long term to meet regulatory compliance and business policies. In the cloud, a strategy we see customers […]

Managing virtual machine images that you standardize through configuration, consistent security patching, and hardening (also called “golden images”) is a time-consuming task. System administrators and database administrators responsible for these tasks have to define the characteristics of these images (such as which software to pre-install, which versions to use, and which security configurations to apply). […]

Many software as a service (SaaS) customers on AWS are familiar with multi-tenancy and tenant isolation. Indeed, customers using MySQL, for instance, may have adopted the bridge model of multi-tenancy, where each tenant has access to their own isolated database or schema. AWS provides many tools and best practices to get started, but achieving database […]

Sorting is one of the most fundamental operations in databases, and optimizing this process is vital to the performance of applications. Sorting involves arranging records in a database table into some meaningful order to make it easier to understand, analyze, and visualize the data. For example, you might want to sort orders by their delivery […]

Do you have a database where the size of relations on disk is larger than you expect? Did you observe this size increasing every time you ran several UPDATE and DELETE operations on the relations? Did you observe adverse effects on performance of the database as a result of this? This might be a result […]

Enterprises both large and small, across diverse industries and with varying levels of cloud maturity, recognize the importance and value of deploying active/active database configurations. An active/active system is a network of independent processing nodes, each having access to a common replicated database so all nodes can participate in a common application. Some enterprises are […]

Global organizations that operate and do business in many countries need to be compliant with data sovereignty and other compliance rules like GDPR. For example, you may want to replicate data to other Regions while at the same time removing certain columns to adhere to privacy laws within a country. In this post, we demonstrate […]

Optimizing a database is an important activity for new and existing application workloads. You need to take cost, operations, performance, security, and reliability into consideration. Conducting benchmark tests help with these considerations. With Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, you can run multiple benchmark tests with different transaction characteristics matching your data access patterns. In this post, […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks, such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications, so you can give them the […]

If you have large mission-critical workloads running on an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database, you may be looking for ways to migrate to AWS with minimal to near-zero downtime. In this post, we show you a solution for migrating your on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon Relational Database (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server using the […]