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Amazon Aurora is a relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora supports MySQL and PostgreSQL open-source database engines. Aurora storage consists of a shared cluster storage architecture that makes it highly available, durable, scalable, and performant by design. As of […]

In Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Multi-AZ deployments can have one or two standby DB instances. A Multi-AZ DB instance deployment has a single standby DB instance that provides failover support, but doesn’t serve read traffic. When the deployment has two readable standby DB instances, it’s called a Multi-AZ DB cluster deployment. A Multi-AZ […]

In this post, we show how you can migrate from Microsoft SQL Server to a Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL cluster with minimal downtime using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Customers using Microsoft SQL Server may want to migrate to open-source databases like PostgreSQL; however, the significant effort to required migrate the application itself, including […]

This is a guest post by Michael Mandrus, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, co-authored with Igor Shvartser, Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon Timestream. For many organizations, performant and cost-effective application monitoring and analytics are a requirement for mission-critical applications. With this requirement comes the increasing use of operational dashboards and visualizations, especially during […]

Applications designed in the cloud need to be able to scale. For stateless resources like application servers, this is a straightforward task and can be achieved by simply adding additional compute resources behind a load balancer. For stateful resources such as databases, scaling can be more challenging. With the release of Amazon Aurora in 2015, […]

Migrating your database from IBM Db2 z/OS to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL or Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition is a multistage process, which usually includes assessment, database schema conversion, data migration, functional testing, performance tuning, and many other steps spanning across the stages. You can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS […]

Database audits are one of the important compliance requirements that organizations need to meet. You might be required to capture, store, and retain the audit data for the long term. You also need to meet your organization’s information security regulations and standards. In this post, we show you how to capture and store audit data […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle allows you to run Oracle databases on AWS, giving you some of the benefits of Amazon RDS automation and the freedom of changing configurations to match different use cases. You can customize your database, underlying server, and operating system configurations to accommodate the specific needs of […]

A common challenge customers face as their business grows is providing the same level of service to their end-users. Most often, databases become bottlenecks as usage outgrows capacity. Caching strategies may help improve performance by offloading frequently used data to a cache like Redis. This requires additional overhead in keeping your cache up to date. […]

If you’re an architect tasked with designing a solution with complex data requirements, you may decide to adopt a multimodel approach, combining multiple data models, possibly spanning multiple database technologies. For each model, you choose the best technology for the purpose at hand. AWS offers 15+ purpose-built engines to support diverse data models, including relational, […]