AWS Database Blog

Category: Technical How-to

Create custom PostgreSQL data types using Trusted Language Extensions

In this post, we demonstrate how to create custom PostgreSQL data types using TLE. PostgreSQL ships with many robust data types that accommodate most customer workloads in a performant manner. Although PostgreSQL has the capabilities to deploy custom data types natively, introducing new data types at scale in architectures spanning multiple AWS accounts and Regions poses a unique challenge for builders. With Trusted Language Extensions (TLE), you can create and manage your custom data types, allowing the quick and easy deployment of PostgreSQL data types across your infrastructures in a secure and efficient manner.

Use a SQL Server secondary replica in an availability group as a source to migrate data into Amazon Redshift with AWS DMS

In this post, we show you how to use a secondary replica instance in an Always On availability group as the source of migrating your data from SQL Server to Amazon Redshift. Using a secondary replica reduces the utilization overhead on your busy primary replica.

Secure Amazon Aurora clusters in HIPAA-compliant workloads

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Exploring Amazon DynamoDB SDK clients

When working with Amazon DynamoDB, developers have the option to choose between a low-level client and a high-level client in most of the AWS SDKs offered. Understanding the differences between these client types is crucial for effectively interacting with DynamoDB. In this post, we explore the characteristics, use cases, and benefits of both low-level and […]

Implement a CI/CD pipeline for Ethereum smart contract development on AWS – Part 1

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a process that automates software development workflows and deploys better quality software that avoids bugs and code failure. CI/CD removes the manual human intervention that was traditionally needed to get code changes from development environments to production servers. With a CI/CD pipeline, code changes are automatically detected, built, […]

Improve performance of real-time analytics and mixed workloads using the Database In-Memory option on Amazon RDS for Oracle

In this post, I demonstrate how to improve the performance of real-time analytics and mixed workloads without impacting Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) using the Oracle Database In-Memory option for workloads running on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle. The demand for real-time analytics requires analytic queries to be run in real time concurrently […]

Monitor real-time Amazon RDS OS metrics with flexible granularity using Enhanced Monitoring

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides access to real-time metrics for your operating system, enabling you to monitor how different processes or threads use RDS resources. You can manage the metrics you want to monitor for each instance on the Amazon RDS console. Amazon CloudWatch is the native monitoring tool of AWS. It is […]

Automate switchover of Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

Oracle E-Business Suite is a business application suite that includes financial, supply chain, human resources, and customer relationship management modules. Due to the application’s critical nature, it’s important to architect Oracle E-Business Suite for high availability and develop the ability to switch over the application and database as quickly as possible in order to minimize […]