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Scale applications using multi-Region Amazon EKS and Amazon Aurora Global Database: Part 1

AWS offers a breadth and depth of services that helps you run and scale your critical workloads in multiple Regions on AWS’ global footprint. Whether you need a multi-Region architecture to support disaster recovery or bring your applications and the backend database into close proximity to your customers to reduce latency, AWS gives you the […]

Figure 5 – Splitting the main query into subqueries by month

Use parallelism to optimize querying large amounts of data in Amazon DynamoDB

In this post, I demonstrate how to optimize querying a large amount of data in Amazon DynamoDB by using parallelism – splitting the original query into multiple parallel subqueries – to meet these strict performance SLAs for large DynamoDB database queries. During our engagements with customers, we often need to retrieve a large number of […]

Set Oracle diagnostics system events on Amazon RDS for Oracle

With Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle, you can now set Oracle diagnostic events parameters requested by Oracle Support at the system level to enable Oracle to dump additional diagnostics information from the database instance on the Oracle database Ora-errors or process context of a malfunctioning process. You can set these events parameters […]

Security auditing in Amazon RDS for Oracle: Part 2

Security auditing is an effective method of enforcing strong internal controls that can enable you to monitor business operations to find activities that may deviate from company policy and meet various regulatory compliance requirements. Security auditing allows you to record the activity on the database for future examination and is one part of an overall […]

Security auditing in Amazon RDS for Oracle: Part 1

Due to compliance requirements and increasing security threats, security auditing has become more important to implement than ever before. Security auditing is an effective method of enforcing strong internal controls that enable you to monitor business operations to find any activities that may deviate from company policy and meet various regulatory compliance requirements. Security auditing […]

Document modeling with Amazon DocumentDB and Hackolade

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0 or 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document […]

Figure 3: Exporting a data model as a CloudFormation template

Import and export CloudFormation templates and CSV sample data with NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB

NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB is a client-side application with a point-and-click interface that helps you design, visualize, and query non-relational data models for Amazon DynamoDB. NoSQL Workbench clients are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Over time, NoSQL Workbench has added many features, such as the ability to use it with Amazon Keyspaces for (Apache […]

Schema and code validator for Oracle to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL migration

Database migration is a sequence of steps from assessment through cutover. One of the key challenges that a migration engineer or an application team may face is validating the migrated database objects like tables, indexes, constraints, procedures, and functions. It is a time-consuming manual task to validate database objects during heterogeneous migration. You have to […]

Deploy Amazon RDS databases for applications in Kubernetes

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 […]

Physical migration of Oracle databases to Amazon RDS Custom using Data Guard

This blog post was reviewed and updated May 2022. In the first post of this series, we showed you how to perform a physical migration of an Oracle database into Amazon RDS Custom using the RMAN duplicate tool. In this post, we walk through the steps to migrate Oracle databases into Amazon RDS Custom using […]