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One of the migration patterns that you can use to modernize and migrate mainframe workloads is automated refactoring using Blue Age tooling. This pattern often requires you to unlock mainframe data from on-premises databases (like IBM Db2 for iSeries) in order to be able to move to the cloud and the technical constraints and steps […]

From startups like digital asset wallet providers to enterprises like banks, companies are launching digital asset products that provide end users the ability to buy, sell, exchange and monitor their digital assets, such as cryptocurrency. Whether the end user is an institutional investor or a retail investor / enthusiast, all of these digital asset products require […]

Planning a migration journey with extensive on-premises database and analytics resources have many requirements such as including time to generate a migration plan and expertise in compiling inventory, designing a migration strategy, and finalizing migration targets. Transition to AWS became remarkably streamlined with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor service. AWS DMS Fleet Advisor helps you construct […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) monitoring and alerting using Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS Performance Insights, and Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring is robust and secure, and often a top choice when troubleshooting Amazon RDS-related issues. You can use CloudWatch alerts for performance metrics like FreeStorageSpace, CPUUtilization, DatabaseConnections, FreeableMemory, NetworkReceiveThroughput, NetworkTransmitThroughput, BufferCacheHitRatio, and more. You can […]

The financial landscape has been in a constant state of evolution. From stock ticker machines to algorithmic trading systems, innovation has always been at the core of finance. Yet, among these transformative changes, the confluence of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital assets like cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and tokenized assets has the potential […]

In this post, we provide an overview of database migration from IBM Db2 LUW to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. We discuss the challenges you may encounter during schema conversions, and how to perform data migration using the native EXPORT and COPY commands. Additionally, we address how […]

Organizations are usually required by regulations or law to maintain database audit logs to demonstrate compliance for various data privacy and regulatory obligations. For example, the PCI-DSS framework requires financial organizations to keep audit logs for data security and adherence. In this post, we show how to effectively and efficiently set up audits in Amazon […]

With the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora, you can use shell commands to create, modify, delete, and generate reports for many kinds of objects, such as database instances, Aurora clusters, parameter groups, and so on. In this post, we show how to use the […]

You can use the managed database offerings in the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) portfolio to remove much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting from day-to-day activities. With Amazon RDS for Oracle, you can significantly reduce the administrative overhead of managing and maintaining an Oracle database. Oracle Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) provides a comprehensive view […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) allows you to tackle the complex task of migrating both homogenous and heterogeneous database engines. As businesses evolve, the need to adopt the most suitable database engines for their unique requirements arises. This often leads to the coexistence of various database systems, presenting challenges when it comes to seamless […]