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Stream data from Amazon DocumentDB to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose using AWS Lambda

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In this post, we discuss how to create the data pipelines from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and publish changes to your destination store. Amazon DocumentDB (with […]

Working with accent-insensitive collations with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL includes support for the SQL Server wire-protocol and T-SQL, which is the query language used in Microsoft SQL Server. This means that developers can use Babelfish to run their existing SQL Server applications on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition without having to switch database drivers or completely rewrite their queries. If you’re […]

Generate AWR reports for Amazon RDS for Oracle read replicas

Oracle database administrators rely on tools such as Oracle’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) report to identify and resolve issues that are occurring in a database. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle allows you to create read replicas to offload read-only workloads. Because the instances are read only, you can’t generate AWR reports to […]

AWS Nitro Enclaves for running Ethereum validators – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we gave a high-level introduction to an AWS Nitro Enclaves-based Web3Signer blockchain validation and signing service. We explained the purpose of running blockchain validators and also why Nitro Enclaves are well suited to run security sensitive cryptographic workloads. We furthermore covered the high-level application architecture and briefly explained the […]

Generate a distinct set of partition keys for an Amazon DynamoDB table efficiently

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Every table in DynamoDB has a schema which specifies if it has a simple partition key (for pure key-value lookups), or a partition key and sort key both (for more complex query patterns). You use these […]

Migrate your SQL Server database to Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL using the Bulk Copy Program utility

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL includes support for the SQL Server wire-protocol and T-SQL, which is the query language used in Microsoft SQL Server. This means that developers can use Babelfish to run their existing SQL Server applications on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition without having to switch database drivers or completely rewrite their queries. When migrating […]

How power utilities analyze and detect harmonic issues using power quality and customer usage data with Amazon Timestream

In this two-part series, we demonstrated how to use Amazon Timestream database and its built-in time series functionalities to identify the harmonic issues at scale through correlating metrics for millions of customers and automate the process for large-scale data handling. An electricity utility normally engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity to end users, […]

Optimize your SQL Server costs by using bring your own media (BYOM) on Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server

Organizations are migrating their Microsoft SQL Server workloads to AWS managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server or Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, which makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. Customers often ask us how they can optimize Amazon […]

Migrate an Informix database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using CData Connect Cloud from within AWS Glue Studio

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition is a fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database engine running in AWS and is a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. Aurora PostgreSQL is cost-effective to set up, operate, and scale, and can be deployed for new or existing applications. Informix is a relational database management system from IBM and supports OLTP and other workloads. […]

Secure your applications running on Amazon RDS for SQL Server

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server supports several security features that can help you secure your application data on AWS. These features protect your data both in transit and at rest, while also providing separation of duties and auditing capabilities. The majority of these features are built into SQL Server and can […]