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PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source relational database systems. The product of more than 30 years of development work, PostgreSQL has proven to be a highly reliable and robust database that can handle a large number of complicated data workloads. AWS offers services that make PostgreSQL database deployments straightforward to set up, manage, […]

When using Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition for operating your relational databases in the AWS cloud, one of the key requirements is to verify that it is highly available during planned and unplanned outages. As database administrators, you should perform occasional database maintenance. This can be in the form of database patching, upgrades, database parameter modifications […]

Planning a migration journey with extensive on-premises database and analytics resources have many requirements such as including time to generate a migration plan and expertise in compiling inventory, designing a migration strategy, and finalizing migration targets. Transition to AWS became remarkably streamlined with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor service. AWS DMS Fleet Advisor helps you construct […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) monitoring and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS Performance Insights, and Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring is robust and secure, and often a top choice when troubleshooting Amazon RDS-related issues. You can use CloudWatch alerts for performance metrics like FreeStorageSpace, CPUUtilization, DatabaseConnections, FreeableMemory, NetworkReceiveThroughput, NetworkTransmitThroughput, BufferCacheHitRatio, and more. You can […]

With the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora, you can use shell commands to create, modify, delete, and generate reports for many kinds of objects, such as database instances, Aurora clusters, parameter groups, and so on. In this post, we show how to use the […]

You can use the managed database offerings in the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) portfolio to remove much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting from day-to-day activities. With Amazon RDS for Oracle, you can significantly reduce the administrative overhead of managing and maintaining an Oracle database. Oracle Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) provides a comprehensive view […]

Businesses such as Paxos that issue stablecoin USD tokens want to find a way to identify common token metrics such as top holders, daily active users, daily volume, total number of holders, latest transfers, top Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols the tokens have been used on, and more. With Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query and Amazon […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Customers across multiple industries utilize DynamoDB as their database of choice. Numerous education technology (EdTech) companies utilize DynamoDB as a persistent data store to track students’ exam scores and course progress. As students advance through various grades, their […]

Open Raven is a leader in automated multi-cloud data security. Open Raven is the data security posture management company that prevents leaks, breaches, and compliance incidents. The Open Raven Data Security Platform connects to your cloud environment within minutes and works over native APIs and serverless functions. The Open Raven Data Security Platform works at cloud […]

In this post, we walk through an example for creating an active-active replication setup between two RDS for PostgreSQL instances. We also show how to monitor replication lag between instances, and review how to detect and resolve conflicts. Finally, we discuss strategies to design applications to work with pgactive.