Category: Announcements

Many applications, including those built on modern serverless architectures, can have a large number of open connections to the database server and may open and close database connections at a high rate, exhausting database memory and compute resources. Databases can also suffer from transient failures, impacting application availability. Finally, applications need to maintain database credentials to […]

Today we’re launching new functionality that makes it easier for you to import data from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) into new DynamoDB tables. This is a fully managed feature that doesn’t require writing code or managing infrastructure. In this post, we introduce DynamoDB import from S3 and show you how to use it […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data. Amazon DocumentDB has added support for auditing Data Manipulation Language […]

Today, Amazon Neptune announced the general availability of Amazon Neptune Global Database. You can use Neptune Global Database to build graph applications across multiple AWS Regions using the same graph database. Neptune Global Database is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe […]

Industry analyst firm Gartner has published its annual report evaluating cloud-based data and analytics services, the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. AWS was once again named a Leader and placed highest among 20 recognized vendors for its “Ability to Execute.” We’re honored by the recognition from the highly respected technology adviser, and […]

Today, we announce the launch of Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (DMA). Amazon DMA brings together AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), and AWS database migration experts to help customers migrate away from traditional commercial databases at fixed prices. At launch, we offer Amazon DMA to customers migrating from Oracle and SQL […]

When you are building a graph application, you want a fast, cost-effective instance as you iterate to build your Apache TinkerPop or RDF/SPARQL graph application. Amazon Neptune now allows you to choose burstable performance instances (T3) in addition to the fixed performance instances (R5 and R4). Amazon Neptune db.t3.medium burstable performance instances are engineered specifically […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB 3.6 or 4.0 or 5.0 workloads. You can use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools as you do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without worrying about the underlying […]

Today, we are announcing the new AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification, which validates an individual’s expertise in recommending, designing, and maintaining the optimal AWS database solution to improve performance, reduce costs, and enable innovation. This certification is the first to validate technical skill in AWS purpose-built databases. To create new AWS Certifications, we work […]

Today AWS DMS announces support for migrating data to Amazon S3 from any AWS-supported source in Apache Parquet data format. This is one of the many new features in DMS 3.1.3. Many of you use the “S3 as a target” support in DMS to build data lakes. Then, you use this data with other AWS […]