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An Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database is a key building block of a highly available application. Business-critical workloads can leverage Amazon Aurora database clusters in Multi-AZ configuration to help improve their overall uptime, and reduce the impact of availability-related events such as Multi-AZ failovers. In this post, we discuss aspects of Amazon Aurora related to […]

Maintaining database security is indispensable for the success of any organization. Implementing database user authentication and authorization is an important step in securing a database system. Conventional database authentication is based on a username-password mechanism. This process requires constant time and effort from both DBAs and end users to manage the credentials. In contrast, incorporating […]

Relational database management system (RDBMS) technology was the preferred choice for data storage for decades. In recent years, the rise of internet-scale applications and exponential data growth have challenged the way industries have designed their database strategies. Organizations are seeing clear benefits in scalability and performance by migrating mission-critical online transactional systems built on RDBMS […]

Organizations that adopt centralized authentication mechanisms gain the following benefits: Enhanced security posture: Centralized authentication enables quick addition or removal of user access throughout the network, giving organizations improved security and the ability to respond quickly to security threats. Scalability: By controlling access through a centralized database, organizations can scale their network and minimize performance […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle allows you to run Oracle databases on AWS, giving you some of the benefits of Amazon RDS automation and the freedom of changing configurations to match different use cases. While working with customers, we have observed use cases that require a connection to be kept with […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports database activity streams to provide a near-real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. To protect your database from internal and external threats, and to meet compliance and regulatory requirements, you can easily integrate the database activity stream with third-party database activity monitoring […]

Today, you can achieve cross-Region disaster recovery (DR) using the Amazon RDS for SQL Server Cross Region Read Replica feature, but it’s only available for workloads running on SQL Server Enterprise edition (EE). You can also use the cross-Region automated backups feature to develop your DR strategy, but recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point […]

In this post, we discuss AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and how you can use Amazon CloudWatch and logs to monitor the performance and health of a replication task. Additionally, we discuss how to set up CloudWatch Alarms for an AWS DMS task as well as instance related metrics that we configure to receive […]

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Amazon RDS Custom allows you to access and customize your database server host and operating system, for example, by applying special patches and changing the database software settings to support third-party […]

Each year online businesses lose tens of billions of dollars due to fraud, which can take many forms. For example, fraudsters can obtain stolen credit card details and use them for unauthorized transactions. Therefore, detecting fraud and malicious behavior at the time of a transaction, such as when a user registers a new payment method, […]