Category: Database

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports the feature Transportable Databases, a high-speed data import and export method supported on versions 11.5 and later and 10.10 and later. If you need to import a PostgreSQL database from one RDS PostgreSQL instance into another, you can use native tools such as pg_dump and pg_restore or load data […]

The Amazon DocumentDB team had a great time meeting with many of you at AWS re:Invent 2019, listening to your feedback and use cases, and understanding what you want us to build next. For me, the highlights of re:Invent were the two great customer use cases presented by FINRA and Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Both […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database purpose built for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a fully managed, multiregion, multimaster database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. This post reviews the fundamentals you need to know to get started. We’re going to create a table and […]

Many AWS users take advantage of the managed service offerings available in the AWS portfolio to do the heavy lifting in their day-to-day activities. Amazon RDS is one of these services and is ideal for your relational database deployments. With RDS, you can significantly reduce the administrative overhead of managing and maintaining a relational database. […]

In this post, I take a close look at three exciting features in PostgreSQL 11: partitioning, parallelism, and just-in-time (JIT) compilation. I explore the evolution of these features across multiple PostgreSQL versions. I also cover the benefits that PostgreSQL 11 offers, and show practical examples to point out how to adapt these features to your applications.

Data generated from various media applications is valuable for organizations to understand customer sentiments and product feedback. It can also be used to recommend new products and services to their customers. This type of data is highly connected and is challenging to ingest and store in a relational database. A relational database does not store […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless database, and is responsible for the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with operating and maintaining the infrastructure behind this distributed system. As a customer, you use APIs to capture operational data that you can use to monitor and operate your tables. This post describes a set of metrics to consider when […]

Today, Amazon DynamoDB introduced support for customer managed customer master keys (CMKs) to encrypt DynamoDB data. Often referred to as bring your own encryption (BYOE) or bring your own key (BYOK), this functionality lets you create, own, and manage encryption keys in DynamoDB, giving you full control over how you encrypt and manage the security […]

AWS offers purpose-built database services that solve specific problems our customers face, so that they never have to make trade-offs around functionality, performance, or scale. Now, AWS is offering the beta of a purpose-built certification for builders with significant expertise in both on-premises and AWS databases. Here are the details you need so that you […]

AWS re:Invent 2019 is almost here. This post includes a complete list of Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) breakouts, workshops, and chalk talks taking place at AWS re:Invent 2019. This year we have 22 total sessions on Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon QLDB including 7 breakouts, 5 chalk talks, 6 builders sessions, and 4 […]