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New for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 7: Get up to 72% better throughput with enhanced I/O multiplexing
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is an in-memory data store, delivering real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications. It is a fully managed service that scales to millions of operations per second with microsecond response time. Open-source Redis (“Redis OSS”) is one of the most loved NoSQL key-value stores, and is known for its great performance. Our […]
Accelerate your multi-region strategy with Amazon DynamoDB: Part 1
When you decide to run applications across multiple geographic regions, there are many questions you need to answer. First, what are the business drivers? Resiliency? It might turn out that your application requirements for resiliency, such as availability and disaster recovery, can be satisfied within a single AWS Region. If you do need a multi-region […]
Writing results from an Athena query to Amazon DynamoDB
Many industries are taking advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) to track information from and about connected devices. One example is the energy industry, which is using smart electricity meters to collect energy consumption from customers for analytics and control purposes. Vector, a New Zealand energy company, combines its energy knowledge with Amazon Web […]
Use guardrails to protect DynamoDB tables
Access control to AWS services and resources should be governed by the security principles of zero trust and least-privilege. Zero trust requires that users are strongly authenticated and fine-grained authorization is enforced before gaining access to resources. Least-privilege is a principle of granting only the permissions required to complete a task. Least-privilege is also an AWS Well-Architected best […]
VPC endpoint considerations for upgrading or creating AWS DMS version 3.4.7 or higher
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) version 3.4.7 and above includes support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) VPC endpoints and makes it easier to maintain end-to-end network configuration within the same AWS region for replication tasks. To learn more about VPC endpoints, refer to Connect your VPC to services using AWS PrivateLink. In […]
Migrate Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle over a database link for space savings and reclamation
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale an Oracle database in the cloud. One of its features is storage auto scaling, which allows the database storage to grow automatically, as needed, up to the maximum capacity (64 TiB) […]
Reduce network transfer time with connection compression in Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB
Our customers have seen many cases where network bandwidth between the MySQL client and database becomes the source of bottleneck. This leads to increase in the query latencies causing performance impact. This is especially seen for workloads which have high network bandwidth requirement. MySQL and MariaDB solve this problem by allowing you to compress traffic […]
Column-level encryption on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server supports column-level data encryption. Column-level encryption provides encryption at a more granular level of data that can be applied on all or selected columns. With column-level encryption, you can define different encryption keys for each different column. You can use encryption in SQL Server for connections, […]
Troubleshoot network connectivity to Amazon RDS databases using VPC Reachability Analyzer
July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to provision a logically isolated section of theAWS Cloud where AWS resources such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB instances can be launched in a virtual network you define. When creating an Amazon RDS DB instance, you […]
How Amazon Finance Technologies simplified global payments by creating a payments repository using Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon Finance Technologies (FinTech) Payments systems disburse Accounts Payable (AP) payments to Amazon’s suppliers and service providers. In 2021, FinTech AP systems disbursed millions of payments in over 150 countries and in more than 50 currencies through various payment options. In this post, we show you how we built an extensible payments metadata repository solution […]









