Category: How-To

In this post, we explore the key considerations and best practices for implementing effective DR strategies for your Amazon Neptune database deployments.

Windows Authentication offers a secure and efficient mechanism for authentication management in Microsoft SQL Server. Many customers use Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure AD) as their identity provider for Windows authentication. With the launch of support to join Amazon RDS for SQL Server to self-managed Active Directory, you can now join your Amazon Relational Database […]

Today’s modern applications are expected to be scalable and resilient. The top of this list is scalability, which depending on the size of the application workload could mean the ability to handle millions of users on demand. With stateful applications such as eCommerce, Financial Services and Games, this means having highly available databases. With the release of Amazon Aurora in 2015, customers could run relational databases in an Aurora cluster comprising of one writer and up to 15 low-latency reader nodes. This enables applications to scale reads significantly. However, as with any database supporting multiple instances, developers have built complex application logic to deal with special events such as switchover or failover.

This post builds upon the full-stack non-fungible token (NFT) development environment setup outlined in a previous post, which is considered a prerequisite to the topics we discuss in this post. Part 1 discussed how to set up a development environment; in this post we walk you through a complete NFT marketplace application using Amazon Managed […]

We first released AWS Quick Start for Magento, a very popular open-source content management system, in September 2015. Since its initial launch, the Quick Start has consistently been among the top 10 Quick Starts that are most popular with our customers. In October 2017, we released an update to the AWS Quick Start for Magento […]