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In Part 1 of this series, we provided a high-level introduction to the AWS Nitro System and explained why Nitro is well suited for flexible and secure blockchain key management workloads. In this post, we guide you through the steps to configure aspects like AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key policies and how to […]

In this post, we provide a solution to access Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) across AWS accounts and VPCs, without using VPC peering with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) or AWS Transit Gateway. We use AWS PrivateLink and Network Load Balancer to redirect database traffic to Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, or Amazon RDS […]

An Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition cluster consists of a primary/writer node and up to 15 reader nodes in a Region. You may offload read-only workloads to reader nodes to scale-out reads. Long-running queries on reader nodes that are accessing tables with high transactional activities on the primary node can cause conflicts, and lead to undesirable […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database (DB) environment. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server automates setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud, while granting access to the database and underlying operating […]

You can use Splunk Cloud Platform to monitor your entire infrastructure, including database servers hosted in AWS, on premises, or both. In this post we provide you detailed steps on how Splunk can connect to Amazon CloudWatch Logs using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user credentials and pull database log files for Amazon Relational […]

June 2023: For Aurora databases where IO is greater than 25% of your costs, check out this blog post and recent announcement to see if you can save money with Aurora I/O-Optimized. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition offers a SQL database with enterprise-grade speed, availability, and scale at a cost comparable to open-source databases. With Aurora, […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. In this post, we share how you can use Amazon Kinesis integration and the Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) feature to design data archiving. Archiving old […]

Amazon Neptune is a graph database service provided by AWS that you can use to build a knowledge graph of relationships among business objects. When building a knowledge graph, what is a suitable model to govern the representation of those relationships? We would prefer not to build our graph on the fly, but rather have […]

Database performance monitoring is critical for application availability and productivity. A good monitoring practice can ensure a small issue is identified in time before it develops into a big problem and causes service disruption. In the AWS Cloud, you can use analytical and monitoring tools like Amazon RDS Performance Insights and Amazon CloudWatch metrics and […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Online bookmakers are innovating to offer their clients continuously updated sports data feeds that allow betting throughout the duration of matches. In this post, we walk through […]