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Build generative AI applications with Amazon Aurora and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock is the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundational models (FMs). FMs are trained on vast quantities of data, allowing them to be used to answer questions on a variety of subjects. However, if you want to use an FM to answer questions about your private data that you […]

Unlock on-demand, cost-optimized performance with Amazon ElastiCache Serverless

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory caching service, compatible with popular open source projects, Redis and Memcached. Hundreds of thousands of customers use it to achieve real-time, cost-optimized performance. We built Amazon ElastiCache Serverless to satisfy some of the most common customer wish-list items, including simplifying the setup process, eliminating capacity planning and management, […]

PostgreSQL 11 upgrade strategies for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL version 11 end of standard support is February 29, 2024. See the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announcements to upgrade your databases: Announcement: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 11.x end of support is February 29, 2024 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 11 […]

How a small DevOps team at Deutsche Bahn unlocked analytics for their SaaS product

This is a guest blog post by Oliver Jägle, Software Architect at DB Curbside Management, in partnership with AWS Senior Solutions Architect Ben Freiberg. Have you ever rented a scooter or a bicycle instead of walking or taking a bus? You’re not alone. More and more people around the globe have adopted this sort of […]

Unlocking performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of Zomato’s Billing Platform by switching from TiDB to DynamoDB

This post is co-authored with Neha Gupta & Kanica Mandhania from Zomato. Zomato, an India-based restaurant aggregator, food delivery, and dining-out company, operates in over 1,000 cities and lists more than 350,000 restaurants. Since its inception in 2008, Zomato has grown tremendously, both in scope and scale—and has emerged as the leading market player in […]

Increase visibility of performance and events on Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora

Customers often ask how they can improve visibility and monitorability of workload performance, as well as scheduled and unscheduled events, on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora databases. This post provides insight into how to proactively enable and set the instrumentation so all details are captured and available for analysis. In my […]

Launch an Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server Instance using AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service which provides administrative access to the underlying operating system and database (DB) environment. This allows you to run third-party applications, install drivers or access native features of SQL Server or Windows, while getting the benefits of a managed database. You can also use […]

New features in AWS DMS 3.5.1

We are excited to announce the availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.5.1. This version provides improvements covering data validation, support for new endpoints, and endpoint settings that were requested by many of our customers. In this post, we highlight a few key features. For the entire list of improvements, […]

Migrate from Teradata to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with Ispirer’s SQLWays migration tool

Automated tools and services greatly reduce the costs and risks of migrating on-premises databases or data warehouses to the AWS cloud. The AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) supports over a dozen database systems as sources or targets. If DMS supports your source and target databases, we recommend using AWS DMS for your migration. There […]

Build on the Polygon network with Amazon Managed Blockchain Access

As builders in the blockchain space work to deliver applications ready for mainstream adoption, they must spend more time developing features and capabilities for their use case and less time on the undifferentiated tasks such as blockchain node operations, blockchain data extraction, and standard API development. Configuring, provisioning, and maintaining a multitude of public blockchain […]