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Achieve faster switchover for Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments with large number of connections

In this post, we show you a recent improvement for Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployment switchovers to reduce your overall downtime when you have a large number of connections to your database. Blue/Green Deployments enforce safety measures to make sure that the switchover from your blue environment to the green environment maintains data consistency. For reference, […]

How RocketReach stabilized Amazon Aurora costs and improved performance with Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized

Over 16 million users around the world, including 95% of the S&P Fortune 500, use RocketReach to power their sales, recruitment, and marketing teams. RocketReach connects professionals to new people and opportunities, powered by the most comprehensive, accurate contact information database with easy-to-use tools to simplify their customer’s workflow. High-quality data is the North Star […]

Update your Amazon DocumentDB TLS certificates: Expiring in 2024

You may have seen the recent notifications to rotate your SSL/TLS certificates in Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, or you may have already received notification from AWS about updating your Amazon DocumentDB TLS certificates before they update starting in August 2024. If you are using Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) clusters with Transport Layer Security […]

Amazon Robotics achieves worldwide scale and improves engineering efficiency by 35% with Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Robotics (AR) designs advanced robotic solutions so the Amazon fulfillment network can meet delivery promises for millions of customers every day. AR builds critical software that controls over a half a million mobile robots used in hundreds of Amazon sites spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With a focus on engineering efficiency, the […]

Run a WAX Blockchain node using AWS CDK

WAX is a blockchain-based system designed for the unique demands of the gaming industry. It provides high transaction throughput and near-instant block finality. With WAX, game developers can decouple in-game digital assets from a single in-game world and let gamers use them in new contexts such as building walls of fame, creating personal online trophy […]

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB Clusters support new storage configurations

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ DB Clusters are a great way to improve the performance and reduce the cost of demanding database workloads. Since RDS Multi-AZ DB Clusters were launched in March 2022, they have become an increasingly popular option for workloads that need more performance than a single RDS instance can support. […]

Run a serverless Arbitrum full node on AWS

Over the last 2 years, layer 2 technologies have gained traction and are solving the scaling constraints of Ethereum. L2beat provides a consolidated view of the different layer 2 projects. At the time of writing, Arbitrum represents approximatively half of the market value of layer 2 solutions. AWS offers a variety of services to help […]

Performant, Fine Grained Authorization at scale powered by Amazon DynamoDB

Okta is an identity and access management company. It has established itself as a key player in the digital security landscape. The Okta cloud platform powers thousands of businesses and applications worldwide and offers access management solutions for both workforce and customer identity use cases. The Okta Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) provides robust access management […]

Use AWS Nitro Enclaves to build Cubist CubeSigner, a secure and highly reliable key management platform for Ethereum validators and beyond

Validators are the fundamental building blocks of proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain protocols like Ethereum. They maintain the history of the chain and run the consensus protocol that makes it possible to implement complex decentralized applications—from decentralized finance applications to NFT collectibles. To join the protocol, validators provide assets as collateral, which ensures they behave correctly in […]

How the Amazon Timehub team built a data replication framework using AWS DMS: Part 1

Amazon’s Timehub team builds and supports time systems that pay employees accurately and simplify workforce management for every country where Amazon does business. Timehub helps Amazon deliver on its Leadership Principle to Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer by enabling next-generation workforce management. It helps prevent pay defects through automation of error correction and delivering […]