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In this post, we show how a large financial AWS customer achieved sub-minute failover between Availability Zones and single-digit minutes between AWS Regions. The customer partnered with AWS to engineer a solution to provide high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for their wealth management customer portal. The goals of the design were to minimize […]

In this post, we provide instructions to replicate ongoing changes using the change tracking feature available in SQL Server Web Edition (source) with the linked server feature available in the Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL (target).

In this post, we demonstrate how you can migrate your instances within an Aurora cluster from a public subnet to a private subnet while keeping downtime to an absolute minimum.

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.

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.

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.

Customers often ask for guidance on how to obtain the count of items in a table or within specific partitions (item collections). In this post, we explore several methods to achieve this, each tailored to different use cases, with a focus on balancing accuracy, performance, and cost.

In this post, we provide an overview of Delivery Hero’s goals and how we used Amazon DynamoDB to build a scalable and cost-efficient solution, leveraging gamification to improve restaurant operations.

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.

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 […]