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Exploring new features of Apache TinkerPop 3.6.x in Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune version 1.2.1.0 now supports the Apache TinkerPop 3.6.x release line, which offers a number of major new features and improvements to existing functionality. New features include fresh additions to the Gremlin language itself, like the P.regex predicate for filters and the mergeV() and mergeE() steps, which should help simplify complex upsert-like functionality. In this […]

Key considerations for migration estimation from Amazon Database Migration Accelerator

Migrating certain workloads (application and database) to new cloud platforms can be technically challenging. AWS launched Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (Amazon DMA) to accelerate and simplify your journey to AWS databases and analytics services. Amazon DMA has assisted thousands of customers globally to migrate their workloads. In this post, we share Amazon DMA’s approach and […]

Monitor Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL performance using PGSnapper

Collecting database performance metrics is critical for troubleshooting any performance issues. AWS offers several services to gather and analyze database performance metrics, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Enhanced Monitoring, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon RDS Performance Insights. While these services provide detailed insights on how your database is performing, sometimes you need a different […]

Evaluate Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 for your provisioned Aurora clusters

In this post, you learn about Aurora Serverless v2 databases and factors to consider when replacing provisioned instances with Aurora Serverless v2 instances. Amazon Aurora Serverless allows you to use Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition without worrying about the management of the compute for your application database. Many organizations today are […]

Choose the right PostgreSQL data access pattern for your SaaS application

In a multi-tenant environment, the process of identifying the database isolation strategy most suitable for your workload is essential. Your isolation strategy ensures that one tenant cannot access another tenant’s data, and defines how the actions of tenants affect one another. The isolation strategy is driven by a combination of business, domain, security, cost, resiliency, […]

Calculate Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity recommendations to optimize costs

This post is co-written with Sanjna Srivatsa, Data Scientist at VMware. Amazon DynamoDB provides discounts ranging from 50 percent to 77 percent to customers who commit to paying for a minimum usage level, called reserved capacity. In this post, you learn how to use historical DynamoDB usage data to make your first DynamoDB reserved capacity […]

Deploy an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and MySQL Multi-AZ DB cluster using Terraform modules

Selecting the right cloud management tool is extremely important for many enterprises. In the post 5 Tips for Keeping Pace with AWS’s Innovation, we briefly discussed the high-level strategies to overcome the challenges of continuous improvement and drive innovations in your organization. In this post, we show how infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions built with […]

Read Scalability with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2

Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto scaling configuration for Aurora. It scales the capacity up or down based on your application’s needs. It enables you to run your database in the cloud without managing any database capacity. Aurora Serverless v2 supports Amazon Aurora Global Database , Multi AZ, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]

How Wiz used Amazon ElastiCache to improve performance and reduce costs

This is a guest post by Sagi Tsofan, Senior Software Engineer at Wiz in partnership with AWS. At Wiz, it’s all about scale. Our platform ingests metadata and telemetry for tens of billions of cloud resources every day. Our agentless scanner collects massive amounts of data that needs to be processed very efficiently. As our […]

Improve application availability on Amazon Aurora

An Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database is a key building block of a highly available application. Business-critical workloads can leverage Amazon Aurora database clusters in Multi-AZ configuration to help improve their overall uptime, and reduce the impact of availability-related events such as Multi-AZ failovers. In this post, we discuss aspects of Amazon Aurora related to […]