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Customers are actively exploring opportunities to optimize their expenses, aligning with the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. In this post, we discuss the following tools that you can use to analyze your spend and optimize your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) costs.

In this post, we outline the steps to migrate an Azure SQL Database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server using Smart Bulk Copy, a method that offers significantly faster migration compared to the SqlPackage export/import approach. Additionally, we discuss best practices and optimizations to minimize downtime during the migration process.

As organizations continue to scale applications, the need for database developers to quickly pick up new skills becomes increasingly important. Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered productivity tool for the integrated development environment (IDE) and command line that helps improve developer productivity by generating code recommendations based on your comments in natural language and code in […]

In this post, we show you all the prerequisites and steps to deploy an Amazon ElastiCache cluster using AWS CDK and TypeScript. We also show you how to deploy resources using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Serverless.

In this post, we show you a recent improvement for Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployment switchovers to reduce your overall downtime when you have a large number of connections to your database. Blue/Green Deployments enforce safety measures to make sure that the switchover from your blue environment to the green environment maintains data consistency. For reference, […]

Over 16 million users around the world, including 95% of the S&P Fortune 500, use RocketReach to power their sales, recruitment, and marketing teams. RocketReach connects professionals to new people and opportunities, powered by the most comprehensive, accurate contact information database with easy-to-use tools to simplify their customer’s workflow. High-quality data is the North Star […]

You may have seen the recent notifications to rotate your SSL/TLS certificates in Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, or you may have already received notification from AWS about updating your Amazon DocumentDB TLS certificates before they update starting in August 2024. If you are using Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) clusters with Transport Layer Security […]

Amazon Robotics (AR) designs advanced robotic solutions so the Amazon fulfillment network can meet delivery promises for millions of customers every day. AR builds critical software that controls over a half a million mobile robots used in hundreds of Amazon sites spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With a focus on engineering efficiency, the […]

WAX is a blockchain-based system designed for the unique demands of the gaming industry. It provides high transaction throughput and near-instant block finality. With WAX, game developers can decouple in-game digital assets from a single in-game world and let gamers use them in new contexts such as building walls of fame, creating personal online trophy […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ DB Clusters are a great way to improve the performance and reduce the cost of demanding database workloads. Since RDS Multi-AZ DB Clusters were launched in March 2022, they have become an increasingly popular option for workloads that need more performance than a single RDS instance can support. […]