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In this series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), we compare and contrast the disaster recovery (DR) solutions available for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This post introduces three methods for implementing DR for SQL Server on AWS: SQL Server backup and restore, SQL Server […]

In today’s world, it’s just a matter of time before disaster happens, and when it happens it’s essential to recover your SQL Server databases and bring the systems online with minimal data loss and downtime. To respond to and recover from an outage of SQL Server database access, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) […]

This is a guest post by Sergey Podlazov – Director of Engineering (Shopping Experience) at Zulily, Senthil Kumar, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS, and Praveen Chamarthi, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog […]

Today, customers using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle have several managed high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities to choose from based on your business requirements and use cases: With Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, you get enhanced availability and durability for database (DB) instances within a specific AWS Region. This is often […]

October 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0, and 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB […]

May 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. If you’re considering migrating your self-hosted PostgreSQL database or transitioning your commercial databases to PostgreSQL on AWS, you’ll need to choose the database service that best aligns with your requirements. AWS offers two managed PostgreSQL database options: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora support a multitude of instance types for you to scale your database workloads based on your needs (see Amazon RDS DB instance classes and Aurora DB instance classes, respectively). In 2020, AWS announced Amazon M6g and R6g instance types for Amazon RDS and recently announced the […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. The first post of this series, Resources consumed by idle PostgreSQL connections, talked about how PostgreSQL manages connections and how even idle connections consume memory and CPU. In this post, I discuss how idle connections impact PostgreSQL performance. Transaction rate impact When PostgreSQL needs data, it first […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source relational database systems. With 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 complex data workloads. AWS provides two managed PostgreSQL options: Amazon […]

As an enterprise application developer building graph applications with Amazon Neptune, you may want to delete and reload your graph data on a regular basis to make sure you’re working with the latest changes in your data, such as new relationships between nodes, or to replace test data with production data. In the past, you […]