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Amazon RDS instances running on legacy file systems face several limitations. Storage is capped at 16 TiB, and some engines, including MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL, may encounter per-file size limits of approximately 2 TiB due to file system constraints, even though the database engines themselves support larger objects. In this post, I show you how to upgrade an RDS instance to the current file system with minimal downtime using Amazon RDS blue/green deployments.

In this post, you learn how Amazon Aurora now provides encryption at rest by default for all new database clusters using AWS owned keys. You’ll see how to verify encryption status using the new StorageEncryptionType field, understand the impact on new and existing clusters, and explore migration options for unencrypted databases.

When running database migration with AWS DMS, you may encounter opportunities to streamline your workflow: interpreting error messages, understanding configuration parameter relationships, and navigating between the console, documentation, and community forums during troubleshooting. What if you could have an AI-powered assistant that understands your migration context, diagnoses issues in real-time, and provides actionable guidance—all within your workflow?
In this post, we show you have Amazon Q integration with AWS DMS can transform your database migration experience.

The new aws_dynamodb_global_secondary_index resource treats each GSI as an independent resource with its own lifecycle management. You can use this feature to make capacity adjustments for GSI and tables outside of Terraform. In this post, I demonstrate how to use Terraform’s new aws_dynamodb_global_secondary_index resource to manage GSI drift selectively. I walk you through the limitations of current approaches and guide you through implementing the solution.

In this post, we show how you can use graph algorithms to analyze the results of AWS Entity Resolution and related transactions for the CNP use case. We use several AWS services, including Neptune Analytics, AWS Entity Resolution, Amazon SageMaker notebooks, and Amazon S3.

Today, we’re announcing multi-account global tables for Amazon DynamoDB, which let you replicate DynamoDB table data across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions. This feature adds account-level isolation to global tables, so you can replicate DynamoDB table data across multiple AWS accounts and Regions for stronger isolation and resiliency. In this post, we show you how to create and configure a multi-account global table, and introduce use cases highlighting the value of using this feature.

In this post, we talk about the benefits of caching in generative AI applications. We also elaborated on a few implementation strategies that can help you create and maintain an effective cache for your application.

Amazon Keyspaces now supports the pre-warming feature to provide you with proactive throughput management. With pre-warming, you can set minimum warm throughput values that your table can handle instantly, avoiding the cold start delays that occur during dynamic partition splits. In this post, we discuss the Amazon Keyspaces pre-warming feature capabilities and demonstrate how it can enhance your throughput performance.

In 2023, Tradeshift migrated one of its core PostgreSQL databases from self-managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. The decision followed mounting operational risks and performance limits that made the existing setup increasingly unsustainable. Tradeshift needed a managed solution that could reduce downtime risk, improve observability, and simplify ongoing operations. Amazon RDS met those requirements. In this post, we explain why we migrated to Amazon RDS, how we executed the migration, and highlight the invaluable benefits it delivered in terms of safety, flexibility, and audit compliance.

AWS Organizations now supports an upgrade rollout policy, a new capability that provides a streamlined solution for managing automatic minor version upgrades across your database fleet. This feature supports Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS database engines MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, and Db2. It eliminates the operational overhead of coordinating upgrades across hundreds of resources and accounts while validating changes in less critical environments before reaching production. In this post, we explore how upgrade rollout policy works, its key benefits, and how you can use it to implement a systematic approach to database maintenance across your organization.