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Configuring SSL encryption on Oracle and PostgreSQL endpoints in AWS DMS
August 2025: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS securely. It supports homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora. AWS DMS supports continuous data replication while maintaining high availability and has been widely adopted for database […]
Best practices for configuring parameters for Amazon RDS for MySQL, part 3: Parameters related to security, operational manageability, and connectivity timeout
August 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In the previous blog post of this series, I discuss MySQL parameters used to optimize replication in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and best practices related to them. In today’s post, I discuss the most important and commonly used MySQL parameters for implementing various […]

