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In the fast-paced digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on their data store to manage critical information, making their seamless functioning indispensable. As the technology evolves, applications become mission critical, and so do the databases that power these enterprises. This necessitates periodic upgrades to maintain optimal performance and security. Although upgrades offer enhanced capabilities, the challenge […]

One of the migration patterns that you can use to modernize and migrate mainframe workloads is automated refactoring using Blue Age tooling. This pattern often requires you to unlock mainframe data from on-premises databases (like IBM Db2 for iSeries) in order to be able to move to the cloud and the technical constraints and steps […]

From startups like digital asset wallet providers to enterprises like banks, companies are launching digital asset products that provide end users the ability to buy, sell, exchange and monitor their digital assets, such as cryptocurrency. Whether the end user is an institutional investor or a retail investor / enthusiast, all of these digital asset products require […]

In this post, we provide an overview of database migration from IBM Db2 LUW to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. We discuss the challenges you may encounter during schema conversions, and how to perform data migration using the native EXPORT and COPY commands. Additionally, we address how […]

Organizations are usually required by regulations or law to maintain database audit logs to demonstrate compliance for various data privacy and regulatory obligations. For example, the PCI-DSS framework requires financial organizations to keep audit logs for data security and adherence. In this post, we show how to effectively and efficiently set up audits in Amazon […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) allows you to tackle the complex task of migrating both homogenous and heterogeneous database engines. As businesses evolve, the need to adopt the most suitable database engines for their unique requirements arises. This often leads to the coexistence of various database systems, presenting challenges when it comes to seamless […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. It provides the benefits of RDS automation with the elevated access needed for legacy, packaged, and custom applications. With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you have the freedom […]

April 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native […]

Many AWS customers are starting to modernize architectures and move toward open-source databases. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL makes it easier to migrate applications from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. With Babelfish, Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible supports commonly used T-SQL language and semantics, which reduces the amount of code changes related to database calls in an […]

In the world of digital assets, private keys have always been of utmost importance. Unlike traditional assets, digital assets are controlled by private keys (a string of letters and numbers), just like passwords, which unlock the right to manage and use assets. Private keys can be used to irreversibly transfer funds from the wallet, thus, […]