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Data Modeling Best Practices to Unlock the Value of your Time-series Data

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database service that makes it easier to store and analyze trillions of events per day. In this post, we guide you through the essential concepts of Timestream and demonstrate how to use them to make critical data modeling decisions. We walk you through how data modeling helps for query performance and cost-effective usage. We explore a practical example of modeling video streaming data, showcasing how these concepts are applied and the resulting benefits. Lastly, we provide more best practices that directly or indirectly relate to data modeling.

Troubleshoot networking issues during database migration with the AWS DMS diagnostic support AMI

In this post, we introduce the key functionalities, architecture, and configurations of the AWS DMS diagnostic support AMI. Then, we show you how to launch the AMI with proper networking configurations and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions using AWS CloudFormation. Last, we demonstrate an example of how network latency results in significant replication lag and how to use the AMI to diagnose the issue.

Improve availability of Amazon Neptune during engine upgrade using blue/green deployment

Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service built for the cloud that makes it easier to build and run graph applications that work with highly connected datasets. Neptune provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, and integrations with other AWS services. Neptune supports in-place upgrades of cluster and database instances. Upgrade of a Neptune cluster can be done either manually or automatically (during the database maintenance window).

Secure Amazon Aurora clusters in HIPAA-compliant workloads

NextGen Healthcare, Inc., a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions is on a mission to improve the lives of those who practice medicine and their patients. Our NextGen Population Health solution provides actionable insights directly to care teams via the aggregation and transformation of multi-source data. Built as a cloud native product, NextGen […]

Strategies and best practices for very large database migrations into Amazon RDS for Oracle

In the realm of AWS Cloud adoption, migration stands out as a pivotal aspect, demanding a comprehensive understanding of diverse tools, techniques, and best practices. This understanding becomes particularly essential when it comes to the smooth and uninterrupted migration of large databases, aiming to minimize both downtime and failures. Undertaking large database migration is an […]

Implement a CI/CD pipeline for Ethereum smart contract development on AWS – Part 1

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a process that automates software development workflows and deploys better quality software that avoids bugs and code failure. CI/CD removes the manual human intervention that was traditionally needed to get code changes from development environments to production servers. With a CI/CD pipeline, code changes are automatically detected, built, […]

Monitor real-time Amazon RDS OS metrics with flexible granularity using Enhanced Monitoring

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides access to real-time metrics for your operating system, enabling you to monitor how different processes or threads use RDS resources. You can manage the metrics you want to monitor for each instance on the Amazon RDS console. Amazon CloudWatch is the native monitoring tool of AWS. It is […]

Automate switchover of Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

Oracle E-Business Suite is a business application suite that includes financial, supply chain, human resources, and customer relationship management modules. Due to the application’s critical nature, it’s important to architect Oracle E-Business Suite for high availability and develop the ability to switch over the application and database as quickly as possible in order to minimize […]

Join Amazon RDS for SQL Server to your self-managed Active Directory

In this post, we show you how to integrate your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server instances with your self-managed Active Directory (AD). Previously, you could only join your RDS for SQL Server instances to an AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory. You were able to connect your on-premises AD via a trust […]

Perform fuzzy full-text search and semantic search on Amazon DocumentDB using Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with Amazon OpenSearch Service using AWS Lambda integration and run full-text search, fuzzy search, and synonym search on an artificially generated reviews dataset. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB API-compatible […]