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Customers running their database workloads using Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) might need to replicate data from one AWS account to another. By doing so, you can achieve faster development or QA environment refreshes, which provides a production-like environment to troubleshoot current production issues, and share data with partners. Amazon DocumentDB provides support for copying […]

Database administrators set up monitoring on database log files to get alerted on certain informational and critical events relating to a pattern of errors specific to a database. Monitoring for errors on a business-critical database is essential to avoid unexpected outcomes such as a missed service-level agreement (SLA), which might result in penalties. A good […]

Customers running Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) want to shorten the process of accessing database logs and to receive proactive notifications of database alerts. Generally, database administrators have host access to the database servers, which gives them access to the database logs on the host file system, which are used for monitoring and validating […]

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. Many organizations have accelerated their adoption of stream data processing technologies in an effort to more quickly derive actionable insights from their data. Frequently, it is required […]

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. Large-scale internet of things (IoT) applications generate data at fast rates, and many IoT implementations require data to be stored sequentially, based on date-time values generated either […]

September 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Organizations improve security and tracing postures by going through database audits to check that they’re following and provisioning well-architected frameworks. Security teams and database administrators often perform in-depth analysis of access and modification patterns against data or meta-data in their databases. During auditing, you may raise the […]

On 28-Oct-22, the AWS CloudFormation template and Jupyter notebook linked in this post were updated to 1/ add openCypher queries along with the existing Gremlin and SPARQL queries, 2/ updated to use Sagemaker newer Amazon Linux 2 instances, 3/ fixed a bug in the RDF generation code that improperly labeled a property as an RDF […]

One of the common challenges to unlocking the value of graph databases is building easy-to-use, customer-facing data tools that expose graph-powered insights in impactful and visual ways. Data engineers need to inspect data quality, data scientists need to perform discovery and inspect models, analysts need to investigate connections, and managers need insight into what’s going […]

December, 2022: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. Learn […]

PostgreSQL is one of the most widely used database engines and is supported by a very large and active community. It’s a viable open-source option to use compared to many commercial databases, which require heavy license costs. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition are AWS managed offerings that […]