Category: RDS for PostgreSQL

Database audits are one of the important compliance requirements that organizations need to meet. You might be required to capture, store, and retain the audit data for the long term. You also need to meet your organization’s information security regulations and standards. In this post, we show you how to capture and store audit data […]

In today’s digital age, ecommerce has become an integral part of our lives, offering convenience and endless product options at our fingertips. To enhance online shopping experience, retailers use personalized product recommendations as a key strategy to engage customers and boost sales. Among the cutting-edge technologies fueling this revolution is the vector database, a powerful […]

Although the application layer is the portion the world accesses for many cloud architectures, it seems that we rarely consider how we can optimize our application for the database we’re using. When using any relational database engine, it’s important to consider not just schema design, but understanding how databases read and write data to their […]

PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. AWS offers Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora as fully managed relational database services. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition make it […]

Migrating an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL database from one AWS account to another is a common use case in scenarios when you acquire, sell, or merge operations, or if you’re reorganizing your AWS accounts and organizational structure. In this post, we discuss the steps and best […]

In this post, we walk you through a procedure to migrate the PostgreSQL database from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud SQL to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. To accomplish this task, we use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), a data migration and replication service. Using AWS DMS you can do the […]

Recently one of our customers, asked us to help them encrypt their unencrypted Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. In this post, we show a solution to create an encrypted database from their existing unencrypted database and cut over with the least disruption to applications. This solution uses database Snapshot and PostgreSQL logical […]

Indexes in PostgreSQL are essential for improving the performance of database queries. They serve as data structures that organize and optimize the retrieval of information from database tables. By creating indexes on specific columns, PostgreSQL can locate and access relevant data more efficiently. Indexes work by creating a separate data structure that contains a sorted […]

Customers are modernizing their mission-critical legacy on-premises IBM Db2 for z/OS databases to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition for its scalability, performance, agility, and availability. You can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to simplify the schema conversion from Db2 for z/OS to Amazon RDS […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports trusted PL/Rust, allowing developers to safely build high-performance database functions in the Rust programming language. PL/Rust is an open-source project that lets you write Rust code that runs directly inside a PostgreSQL database, and provides support for PostgreSQL features such as running queries, writing trigger […]