Category: Database

Many database solutions are available today, and choosing the right one for your use case can be difficult. Recently, NoSQL databases have been widely adopted for real-time web applications. Amazon DynamoDB is an example of a NoSQL database that is optimized to yield significant flexibility and performance benefits over a traditional relational database management system […]

For years, companies have had to set up their own local databases and maintain the hardware themselves. However, as the cloud infrastructure continues to improve, there’s far less need to own and manage your own hardware. Here at Amazon, we own hundreds (if not thousands) of on-premises databases that over time we have migrated to […]

Born on AWS InfoScout was born on AWS, being along for the journey since its inception in 2011. It all started with a single Amazon EC2 instance to collect receipts uploaded from friends and family. Seven years later, we now manage 150+ AWS instances to support our mobile applications, data pipelines, machine learning models, and […]

AWS customers use Amazon DynamoDB to store mission-critical data. These customers’ applications make millions of requests per second to individual DynamoDB tables that contain hundreds of terabytes of items. They count on DynamoDB to return results in single-digit milliseconds. In many cases, these applications have requirements to notify other systems and users about specific transactions, […]

Many large enterprises are moving their data processing from batch to real-time in order to get more timely insights. The challenge of doing so is that a real-time data processing architecture must be able to keep up with the incoming data stream. This requires strong fault tolerance and elasticity. In this blog post, we discuss […]

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Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility is a popular choice for customers looking to consolidate database workloads. Aurora MySQL is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. It also delivers up to five times the throughput of the standard MySQL community […]

In this post, I discuss how to integrate a central Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL database with other systems by streaming its modifications into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. An earlier post, Streaming Changes in a Database with Amazon Kinesis, described how to integrate a central RDS for MySQL database with other systems […]

MySQL is the most popular open-source database in the world. However, many customers find that the undifferentiated heavy lifting of backups, high availability, and scaling of MySQL databases to be complex, time-consuming, or both. This is one of the leading reasons why customers move their existing MySQL footprint to Amazon RDS for MySQL. Amazon RDS […]

We are excited to introduce a new version of AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) that includes support for PostgreSQL 10 partitioning, a new server-level Assessment Report, support for table-valued functions, and more. For those of you who are new to AWS SCT, this tool helps convert your existing database schema from one database engine […]