Category: RDS for MySQL

In this post, we focus on database object validation for the heterogenous migration from SAP ASE to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, or Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. For schema conversion and migration, you can use AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). AWS SCT helps convert your database schema […]

Database object validation plays a key role in the database migration process. It’s the process of determining whether all the source database objects have been successfully migrated to the target database by comparing their types and counts. If you skip the validation phase, you may encounter runtime errors due to missing database objects, which can […]

We use bulk data loading to move data from a source to a destination database for migration or load testing. Bulk data importing into MySQL databases can take several minutes to hours and sometimes even days depending upon the amount of data that needs to be loaded. Creating a dump file takes a small amount […]

Migrating your database from IBM Db2 LUW to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, or Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition is a complex, multistage process, which usually includes assessment, database schema conversion, data migration, functional testing, performance tuning, and many other steps spanning across the stages. You can use AWS […]

The Kubernetes container orchestration system provides numerous resources for managing applications in distributed environments. Many of these applications need a searchable storage system for their data that is secure, durable, and performant. Developers want to focus on continuously improving their apps rather than having to worry about the operational functions of their databases. They also […]

MySQL is one of the most popular open-source relational databases in the world. Many customers choose to run their MySQL workload in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL because it takes care of heavy lifting tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, configuration, monitoring, backups, and scaling. Amazon Aurora is a great […]

This post is coauthored with Bajrang Panigrahi, Senior Software Engineer- II at Zenefits. Zenefits is an award-winning People Operations Platform that makes it easy to manage employee documents, HR, benefits, payroll, timekeeping, and attendance all in one secure place. Zenefits uses Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for its production database workloads to improve operational […]

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy that can front your Amazon RDS for MySQL or Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL databases. It allows you to manage an application’s access to the database […]

Caching enables the best user experience for real-time applications. You can build applications that provide sub-millisecond response times by storing the most frequently requested data in an in-memory cache like Redis. On August 30, 2021, we announced the support for migrating your data from supported sources to Redis, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, and Amazon MemoryDB […]

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to reflect a new parameter change in MySQL Community 8.0.28 that impacts Amazon Aurora MySQL release. MySQL 8.0 has introduced TempTable as the new, default internal temporary table storage engine to speed up query processing. The MySQL query optimizer creates temporary tables internally to store intermediate datasets […]