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Learn how Presence migrated off a monolithic Amazon RDS for MySQL instance, with near-zero downtime, using replication filters

Presence is a leading provider of live therapy and evaluation services for PreK-12 schools throughout the United States. Amazon RDS for MySQL has been a core part of Presence’s data architecture for many years. Presence used RDS read replicas, with replication filtering, to migrate applications from their centralized RDS for MySQL DB instance to dedicated DB instances. This approach allowed them to migrate each service, on its own schedule, with little downtime. In this post, we provide a practical example for migrating using the same method.

Analyzing PL/SQL and T-SQL code using Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we use the Anthropic Claude3 Sonnet large language model (LLM) on Amazon Bedrock to provide a detailed breakdown of the complex PL/SQL and T-SQL code, making it more understandable and comprehensible for developers who are new to a code base or working with unfamiliar code, because it helps them understand the logic and flow of the code more effectively.

Use Amazon RDS Proxy with IAM authentication for cross-account access

This post is a follow-up to Use Amazon RDS Proxy to provide access to RDS databases across AWS accounts, addressing cross-account connectivity when using RDS Proxy. We discuss how you can achieve cross-account connectivity while taking advantage of the simplicity and benefits of IAM authentication.

Create self-managed replicas for an Amazon RDS for Db2 instance for read scaling and disaster recovery

In this post, we explain how to use RDS Db2 Snapshot and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to create cross Region replicas for your RDS for Db2 DB instance. If you want to use this replica for read scaling, there needs to be logic built at the application layer to direct only read traffic to the replica.

Resolving non-responsive connection issue to on-premises Oracle multitenant architecture database having local listeners behind firewall from the cloud

Oracle Multitenant Architecture uses a container-based architecture specifically designed for the cloud. It enables the Oracle database to function as multitenant container database (CDB) where application databases are created as pluggable databases (PDB) inside the container database (CDB). A PDB is a collection of schemas, schema objects and non-schema objects, and self-contained for an application […]

Migrate Cassandra workloads to Amazon Keyspaces using CQLReplicator

In this post we walk through the steps to setup CQL Replicator and migrate a table from self-managed Cassandra cluster to Amazon Keyspaces. We demonstrate how to set up, run, and shut down the CQLReplicator job using command line tooling and observe changes flowing through the pipeline in Amazon CloudWatch.

How Phreesia replicated a 30 TB SQL Server database to Amazon S3 with AWS DMS

In this post, we discuss how Phreesia used AWS DMS to replicate their on-premises database to AWS in an effective and cost-optimized manner. Because of the database’s large size and complex data structure, properly tuning the AWS DMS configuration was critical to minimize the migration duration and cost. We outline the fine-tuning techniques that were applied to optimize the AWS DMS task settings, instance size, IOPS provisioning, and table mappings. Applying these performance optimizations allowed Phreesia to develop a migration strategy to move this 30 TB database to Amazon S3 in just 2 days without disruption to production workloads.