Category: Announcements

Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports IBM Db2 12.1, the latest generation of the Db2 database engine. Alongside this upgrade, we’re introducing a new edition: Community Edition (db2-ce). You now have three edition choices when you provision an Amazon RDS for Db2 instance. In this post, we walk through what’s new in Db2 12.1, introduce the Community Edition and when to use it, show you how to get started using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and Terraform, and cover the upgrade path from Db2 11.5.

In this post, we explain how durability works, walk through the architecture, and share performance results to show that durability doesn’t compromise the microsecond latency customers expect from ElastiCache.

In this post, you learn how to upload your SQL Server installation media to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and launch a BYOM instance.

In this post, we show how the integration between Vercel and AWS Databases solves this and invite you to participate in the H0 hackathon.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4, our latest major version, compatible with community MySQL 8.4.7. This release marks an important milestone for Aurora MySQL customers, introducing a simplified versioning model aligned directly with community MySQL, along with a streamlined patch version experience, and the full set of community MySQL 8.4 enhancements. In this post, we discuss the customer challenges that this release addresses, introduce Aurora MySQL 8.4, walk through the new versioning approach and its benefits for customers, cover the key capabilities delivered in Aurora MySQL 8.4, and show you how to get started.

In this post, we share the version currency timelines for Aurora and RDS open source engines. We also explain why timelines differ across engines and how you can use them to plan your upgrades.

Today, we are announcing ExtendDB, an open source Amazon DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends, released under the Apache 2.0 License. ExtendDB implements the DynamoDB wire protocol and ships with PostgreSQL as its first backend, so any AWS SDK, CLI, or tool that works with DynamoDB works with ExtendDB unchanged. In this post, we introduce ExtendDB, walk through getting started, and explain the architecture. This is a v0.1 release for development, testing, and experimentation.

In this post, we demonstrate how to configure Aurora DSQL Change Data Capture and stream database changes into Kinesis Data Streams. You will learn how CDC works, how to configure a streaming pipeline, and how to consume change events. By the end of this post, you will have a working CDC pipeline that streams database changes into a durable event stream that downstream applications can process.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0. This brings the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to address the performance and capability requirements of applications as they grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, such as real-time analytics, AI-driven retrieval, and high-throughput caching. In this post, we explore how these enhancements help customers build faster applications, streamline architectures, and support new real-time and AI-driven workloads.

New search capabilities are available in ElastiCache version 9.0 for Valkey. In this post, we walk through the new search capabilities, show how they work together, and build a search and recommendation engine from scratch.