Category: Amazon RDS

Customers are increasingly choosing to encrypt their AWS Cloud databases and data stores by default. This trend is only gaining speed with the evolving meaning of sensitive data (personally identifiable information [PII], etc.) within various regulatory frameworks. Customers also ask AWS for guidance on how to best adopt the latest database encryption options, while maintaining […]

Enterprise customers who are currently running on-premises, mission-critical applications on commercial databases are looking for cost-efficient, managed database service offerings. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is one of the target platforms for the relational database workload migration. RDS provides resizable capacity and manages time-consuming and undifferentiated heavy lifting administration tasks. For large-scale database migrations, […]

Sumo Logic started around the same time as the AWS stack was starting to mature. The company initially chose infrastructure that was tried and tested, but also cutting-edge at the time, namely Amazon RDS for MySQL instances. However, over time, that choice started to cost us a significant number of developer hours. Developers spent time […]

This blog post was reviewed and updated May 2022, to improve readability by adding more step-by-step guidance. SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it easier to setup, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the Cloud. One of the RDS SQL Server components is […]

  This post was updated 2/1/2021 to fix a statement about how to share automated snapshots between AWS Accounts. Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database. Based on AWS high performance compute and storage, Amazon RDS supports the MySQL, SQL […]

In the first post of the series, I described some generic security concepts and corresponding AWS security controls that can be applied to data stores on AWS. Using these, you can create a stronger security posture around your data. In this second post, I demonstrate how these concepts can be implemented to Amazon RDS databases. […]

If you have software or systems that support Japanese customers, and if your software or systems need to display a Japan era name, you may need to make changes to display the new name. The new Japan era name comes into effect on May 1, 2019, when the current Japanese Emperor abdicates. In this blog […]

  Sharding, also known as horizontal partitioning, is a popular scale-out approach for relational databases. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a managed relational database service that provides great features to make sharding easy to use in the cloud. In this post, I describe how to use Amazon RDS to implement a sharded database […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source relational database systems. With more than 30 years of development work, PostgreSQL has proven to be a highly reliable and robust database that can handle a large number of complicated data workloads. PostgreSQL is considered to be the primary […]

Reviewed and updated on June 2022. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) supports native backup and restore for Microsoft SQL Server databases. If you have multiple AWS accounts, you can perform native backup and restore across these accounts, provided that your Amazon RDS instance and the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket are in […]