Category: Announcements

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now extends to self-managed databases. Monitor self-managed PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 alongside your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS fleet from a single console, with the same DB Load, Top SQL, and wait event analysis you use for managed databases.

Announcing strands-dynamodb-storage, an open source Amazon DynamoDB storage backend for the Strands Agents SDK. Back a Strands agent’s session state, long-term memories, and transcripts with one DynamoDB table in your own account, and give the agent semantic recall with a vector index on that same table.

Aurora serverless now automatically adds 12 Aurora Capacity Units to its current capacity within a second, and continues scaling to 256 ACUs as your workload grows. In this post, we show how an Aurora serverless cluster responds to a sudden workload spike, and compare its throughput against a provisioned db.r8g.xlarge instance using benchmark data.

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) for Oracle Database@AWS. ExaDB-XS brings Exadata-class performance and availability through a consumption-based model, so you can scale compute and storage independently and pay only for what you use.

With the release of multi-node scaling for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, clusters can now support up to 15 nodes with distinct roles. You can separate ingestion, querying, and compaction to match your workload’s demands. In this post, we cover when to scale vertically versus horizontally, and how to make the right choice for both stability and cost.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1, bringing the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to customers running latency-sensitive, high-throughput, and operationally demanding in-memory workloads on ElastiCache. In this post, we discuss how Valkey 9.1 helps you get more throughput and memory efficiency from demanding workloads while providing stronger isolation for multi-tenant and shared-cluster deployments. We also cover new commands that simplify common application and operational workflows, new observability features that give operators better visibility into engine behavior, and how ElastiCache continues to deliver the latest Valkey open source innovations in a fully managed service.

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.