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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) […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is used for multiple reasons, including migrating from on premises to AWS, migrating from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), continuous replication from Amazon RDS to Amazon RDS, and continuous replication from Amazon RDS to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). When […]

In today’s cloud-enabled enterprise, multiple teams take on the responsibility of creating and managing databases. The challenge that you may face is the enforcement of your company’s standard configuration policies—how do you make sure that all databases are following the database configuration standards consistently? This is where AWS Config can help. In this post, I […]

After the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, Korean Air began transporting vaccines in February, 2021. In the process, Korean Air realized the need to provide more accurate information between related stakeholders in a more reliable way and turned to blockchain technology. Korean Air confirmed that blockchain is suitable for improving traceability, transparency, and accuracy of […]

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory caching service that provides microsecond speed to support real-time applications. ElastiCache for Redis combines the speed, simplicity, and versatility of open-source Redis with the reliability, scalability, manageability, and security from AWS to power the most demanding real-time applications in media and entertainment, financial services, ecommerce, AdTech, […]

In this post, we present a design for a common technical requirement: ingest data from multiple sources to a target Resource Description Framework (RDF) graph database. Our target is Amazon Neptune, a managed graph database service. RDF is one of two graph models supported by Neptune. The other is Labeled Property Graph (LPG). Each graph […]