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In this post, we show how to rebuild large indexes on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL by combining Amazon Aurora Blue/Green Deployments with Aurora Optimized Reads. By performing the reindex on the green (staging) environment with a Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe)-backed instance class, the sort phase uses fast local storage instead of Amazon EBS over the network, and you avoid impacting production workloads.

AWS Database Migration Service Schema Conversion (DMS SC) converts database objects across heterogeneous systems such as Oracle or SQL Server to PostgreSQL or MySQL. In this post, we show you how DMS SC, with generative AI capabilities, elevates the code conversion experience.

Starting today, you can use AI agents to orchestrate entire AWS DMS Schema Conversion (DMS SC) workflows through natural language. An AI agent manages the full lifecycle, including creating migration projects, browsing source metadata, converting schemas, generating assessment reports, and exporting results, all from a conversational prompt.

This post is the second in a two-part series on reducing replication lag for Amazon RDS for Oracle Read Replicas. In Part 1, we discussed redo compression and configuration options to optimize replica lag. In this post, we show you how to monitor replica lag using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and database views, identify common root causes through wait event analysis, and how to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.

In part 1 (this post), we show you how to optimize lag for RDS for Oracle replicas using the redo compression feature. In part 2, we discuss various techniques to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve replication lag for RDS for Oracle replicas.

In this post, you learn how to set up CDC-only reverse replication from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 back to your on-premises AIX Db2 instance using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).

In this post, we show you how to deploy an automated pipeline that extracts PostgreSQL audit logs from CloudWatch Logs, converts them into structured comma-separated values (CSV) format, and stores them in Amazon S3 for long-term analysis. The solution processes log entries in near real time after generation.

In this post, we walk through how to use the Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack with Amazon RDS for Oracle. We cover setting up Data Masking in Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and automation options.

This post shows you how to set up centralized cross-account and cross-Region monitoring for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora databases using Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Whether your databases are spread across two AWS accounts or ten, and across one Region or several, this walkthrough gives you a single monitoring account with visibility across your entire database fleet.

In this post, we demonstrate an approach to review RDS logs using Kiro, an AI-powered conversational assistant combined with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from awslabs.cloudwatch-mcp-server. This solution transforms log analysis from a technical, query-based process into a natural language conversation, delivering actionable insights instantly.