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This is Part 1 of a two-part series covering the key features in PostgreSQL 18. In this post, we focus on performance enhancements: skip scan optimization for multicolumn indexes, enhanced EXPLAIN output, automatic removal of unnecessary self-joins, and several vacuum and autovacuum improvements that help keep your database running efficiently.

In Part 1 of this series, we explored the performance enhancements in PostgreSQL 18, including skip scan optimization, enhanced EXPLAIN output, automatic self-join removal, and vacuum/autovacuum improvements. In this second part, we focus on security, monitoring, developer productivity, and logical replication enhancements that improve operational efficiency and the overall developer experience.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server recently launched Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), so you can use your existing SQL Server licenses with fully managed RDS instances. This is particularly valuable if you have existing Microsoft licensing agreements and want to optimize your cloud spending by using those investments on AWS. If you’re already running RDS for SQL Server with the license-included (LI) model, you can now convert those instances to BYOM in place, no database migration required. In this post, we walk you through the end-to-end conversion process: preparing your installation media, creating a BYOM engine version, and performing the in-place license model change.

Managing Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition upgrades across multiple database clusters can be time-consuming and error-prone when done manually. In this post, we show you how to automate Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL upgrades across your entire database fleet through consistent, repeatable procedures.

In this post, you learn three pagination techniques for Aurora DSQL: OFFSET/LIMIT, cursor-based (keyset), and temporal. You implement keyset pagination in SQL and Python, build it into an API layer, optimize with composite indexes, handle batch processing within the 3,000-row transaction limit, and avoid five common anti-patterns. By the end, you can choose the right pagination method for your workload and implement it with confidence.

In this post, we explore the key reasons why Oracle Database@AWS is a strong fit for organizations running Oracle workloads on AWS. We cover the business, technical, and licensing advantages it brings, and how it complements the existing AWS options you already know, such as Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon EC2.

In this post, we explain how durability works, walk through the architecture, and share performance results to show that durability doesn’t compromise the microsecond latency customers expect from ElastiCache.

In this post, you learn how to upload your SQL Server installation media to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and launch a BYOM instance.

In this post, you learn how Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition accelerates developer productivity in the agentic AI era. We explore three core design convictions: meet developers where they work, absorb workload variability, and grow with the application from prototype to global scale.

In this post, we show how the integration between Vercel and AWS Databases solves this and invite you to participate in the H0 hackathon.