AWS Database Blog
Category: Intermediate (200)
Announcing durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey
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.
Unlock license mobility with Bring Your Own Media on fully managed Amazon RDS for SQL Server
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.
Accelerating developer productivity in the agentic AI era with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
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.
AI-native, full-stack web apps with Vercel and AWS Databases
In this post, we show how the integration between Vercel and AWS Databases solves this and invite you to participate in the H0 hackathon.
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally available
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4, our latest major version, compatible with community MySQL 8.4.7. This release marks an important milestone for Aurora MySQL customers, introducing a simplified versioning model aligned directly with community MySQL, along with a streamlined patch version experience, and the full set of community MySQL 8.4 enhancements. In this post, we discuss the customer challenges that this release addresses, introduce Aurora MySQL 8.4, walk through the new versioning approach and its benefits for customers, cover the key capabilities delivered in Aurora MySQL 8.4, and show you how to get started.
Introducing ExtendDB: An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends
Today, we are announcing ExtendDB, an open source Amazon DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends, released under the Apache 2.0 License. ExtendDB implements the DynamoDB wire protocol and ships with PostgreSQL as its first backend, so any AWS SDK, CLI, or tool that works with DynamoDB works with ExtendDB unchanged. In this post, we introduce ExtendDB, walk through getting started, and explain the architecture. This is a v0.1 release for development, testing, and experimentation.
Nine Entertainment’s journey: Achieving 98% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey
In this post we demonstrate how Nine Entertainment achieved a 98% cost reduction by migrating to Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey while improving scalability and eliminating manual intervention during peak events.
Announcing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0. This brings the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to address the performance and capability requirements of applications as they grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, such as real-time analytics, AI-driven retrieval, and high-throughput caching. In this post, we explore how these enhancements help customers build faster applications, streamline architectures, and support new real-time and AI-driven workloads.
Full-text, exact-match, range, and hybrid search on Amazon ElastiCache
New search capabilities are available in ElastiCache version 9.0 for Valkey. In this post, we walk through the new search capabilities, show how they work together, and build a search and recommendation engine from scratch.
How Amazon DocumentDB on AWS Graviton4 R8g instances delivers 63% better Sysbench benchmark results
This post demonstrates how in our testing upgrading to Graviton4-based R8g instances on Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 5.0 and 8.0 delivers up to 63% better performance compared to Graviton2-based R6g instances on the Sysbench benchmark. This improvement comes at only a 5% cost increase.









