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Secure Amazon Aurora clusters in HIPAA-compliant workloads
NextGen Healthcare, Inc., a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions is on a mission to improve the lives of those who practice medicine and their patients. Our NextGen Population Health solution provides actionable insights directly to care teams via the aggregation and transformation of multi-source data. Built as a cloud native product, NextGen […]
Strategies and best practices for very large database migrations into Amazon RDS for Oracle
In the realm of AWS Cloud adoption, migration stands out as a pivotal aspect, demanding a comprehensive understanding of diverse tools, techniques, and best practices. This understanding becomes particularly essential when it comes to the smooth and uninterrupted migration of large databases, aiming to minimize both downtime and failures. Undertaking large database migration is an […]
Implement a CI/CD pipeline for Ethereum smart contract development on AWS – Part 1
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a process that automates software development workflows and deploys better quality software that avoids bugs and code failure. CI/CD removes the manual human intervention that was traditionally needed to get code changes from development environments to production servers. With a CI/CD pipeline, code changes are automatically detected, built, […]
Monitor real-time Amazon RDS OS metrics with flexible granularity using Enhanced Monitoring
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides access to real-time metrics for your operating system, enabling you to monitor how different processes or threads use RDS resources. You can manage the metrics you want to monitor for each instance on the Amazon RDS console. Amazon CloudWatch is the native monitoring tool of AWS. It is […]
Automate switchover of Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
End of support notice: On March 31, 2027, AWS will end support for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Existing customers can continue using the service until March 31, 2027. After March 31, 2027, you will no longer be able to access RDS Custom for Oracle resources including database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions. We […]
Join Amazon RDS for SQL Server to your self-managed Active Directory
In this post, we show you how to integrate your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server instances with your self-managed Active Directory (AD). Previously, you could only join your RDS for SQL Server instances to an AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory. You were able to connect your on-premises AD via a trust […]
Perform fuzzy full-text search and semantic search on Amazon DocumentDB using Amazon OpenSearch Service
In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with Amazon OpenSearch Service using AWS Lambda integration and run full-text search, fuzzy search, and synonym search on an artificially generated reviews dataset. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB API-compatible […]
Choose AWS Graviton and cloud storage for your Ethereum nodes infrastructure on AWS
The first question that comes up for everyone who wants to manage their own Ethereum nodes on AWS is how to select the right compute and storage. To answer this question, we ran a series of tests and observed how popular Ethereum Execution Layer (EL) clients go-ethereum with LevelDB (Geth) and Erigon work on Amazon […]
Introducing Amazon RDS for MariaDB 10.11 for up to 40% higher transaction throughput
MariaDB is a popular open-source high performance database. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB supports multiple major engine versions including 10.4, 10.5, 10.6. Today, Amazon RDS has announced support for MariaDB major version 10.11, which is the latest long-term supported major version from the MariaDB community. When compared to previous versions, Amazon RDS for MariaDB […]
Upgrade from Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 to v2 with minimal downtime
April, 2026: Aurora Serverless v2 has been renamed Aurora serverless. No action required. January 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. When Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 came out, it was one of the most exciting new features of 2018. The ability to have a relational database without having to worry about paying for […]









