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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 […]
Achieve transaction consistency on your target database when using multiple tasks with AWS DMS replication
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 […]
Enforce configuration policies for your Amazon RDS databases using AWS Config
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 […]
How Korean Air succeeded in managing the vaccine cold chain with Amazon Managed Blockchain
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 […]
Simplify managing access to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters with IAM
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, […]
Load RDF data into Amazon Neptune with AWS Glue
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 […]
Security best practices for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB instances
At AWS, cloud security is the highest priority. The implementation of security and compliance is a shared responsibility. While AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud, it provides multiple features to help you manage the security of your databases in the cloud. For example, you can integrate services like AWS Identity and Access […]
Federated query support between SQL Server and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
When you have a business need to integrate the data between Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, you can use the open-source TDS_FDW PostgreSQL extension to create federation between these two databases. With TDS_FDW with Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible, you can modernize and extend the functionality of your existing applications to meet changing business needs. […]
Use vertical partitioning to scale data efficiently in Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed and serverless NoSQL cloud database service that provides consistent performance at any scale, with zero-downtime for maintenance or scaling. While there is a maximum item size of 400 KB (inclusive of both attribute names and values), you can use a technique called vertical partitioning to scale your data beyond […]









