Category: Technical How-to

WAX is a blockchain-based system designed for the unique demands of the gaming industry. It provides high transaction throughput and near-instant block finality. With WAX, game developers can decouple in-game digital assets from a single in-game world and let gamers use them in new contexts such as building walls of fame, creating personal online trophy […]

Over the last 2 years, layer 2 technologies have gained traction and are solving the scaling constraints of Ethereum. L2beat provides a consolidated view of the different layer 2 projects. At the time of writing, Arbitrum represents approximatively half of the market value of layer 2 solutions. AWS offers a variety of services to help […]

Customers prefer to host their relational database workloads in a managed service such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) because of the benefits offered by managed services. Although Amazon RDS offers automatic backups as a native feature, your data retention policies may require longer retention periods than the retention policy supported by Amazon RDS. […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully-managed database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Customers increasingly use workload isolation strategies to minimize security threats and to ease the complexity of compliance demands for their DynamoDB-backed workloads. Implementing workload isolation strategies often requires cross-account and cross-Region access to DynamoDB resources using IAM identity-based policies, which […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud. When monitoring Amazon RDS, you can use Amazon CloudWatch metrics for basic monitoring, Amazon RDS Performance Insights for database and query performance analysis, and Enhanced Monitoring for OS-level metrics. These tools provide valuable […]

Developers want to perform bulk updates to modify items in their Amazon DynamoDB tables. Reasons for performing bulk updates can include: Adding or updating attributes – backfilling a Time to Live (TTL) value or populating an attribute to support a new access pattern or global secondary index (GSI). For example, enriching existing data with new […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully-managed database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a multi-Region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. Customers can access DynamoDB from their VPC or from workloads that run on-premises with gateway endpoints. For on-premises private network connectivity […]

In the first part, we discussed the most common issues that will cause upgrade prechecks from Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition v2 to v3 to fail. In this post, we discuss the most common causes of prolonged and unsuccessful upgrade. Cluster has XA transactions in the prepared state Amazon Aurora MySQL cancels the upgrade if it […]

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) is planned to reach the end of standard support on October 31, 2024. The Amazon Aurora MySQL version 2 end of standard support timeline is discussed in our public documentation. We recommend that you upgrade your databases to the default minor version of Amazon Aurora […]

In recent times, there has been a growing interest in using foundation models (FMs) to build generative AI applications. These models are trained on vast amounts of data and are capable of performing tasks that were previously thought to be the exclusive domain of humans, such as creating art and music. However, when it comes […]