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Running AWS Lambda-based applications with Amazon DocumentDB
Microservices-based applications architectures are the norm for building scalable applications. AWS makes creating these types of applications easier with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). Just bring your code and deploy an application with this fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB application […]
Announcing the support of Parquet data format in AWS DMS 3.1.3
Today AWS DMS announces support for migrating data to Amazon S3 from any AWS-supported source in Apache Parquet data format. This is one of the many new features in DMS 3.1.3. Many of you use the “S3 as a target” support in DMS to build data lakes. Then, you use this data with other AWS […]
Using the MariaDB JDBC driver with Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility
September 2023 update: Version 3.0.3 of the MariaDB JDBC Driver (Connector/J) no longer supports Amazon Aurora. We recommend using the AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper Driver . The Amazon Web Services JDBC Driver has been redesigned as an advanced JDBC wrapper. This wrapper is complementary to and extends the functionality of an existing JDBC driver to help an […]
Amazon RDS Under the Hood: Multi-AZ
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers bet their businesses on their data store and highly available access to it. For these customers, Multi-AZ configurations provide an easy-to-use solution for high availability (HA). When you enable Multi-AZ, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) maintains a redundant and consistent standby copy of your data. If you encounter problems […]
Choosing the Right DynamoDB Partition Key
September 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. This blog post covers important considerations and strategies for choosing the right partition key for designing a schema that uses Amazon DynamoDB. Choosing the right partition key is an important step in the design and building of scalable and reliable applications on top of DynamoDB. […]
Configuring the AWS Schema Conversion Tool
May 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) is a project-style Java application that can be installed on a local computer or an Amazon EC2 instance. The tool can be downloaded from AWS and is supported on MS Windows, Mac OSX, and Ubuntu and Fedora Linux. […]