AWS Database Blog

Database administrators set up monitoring on database log files to get alerted on certain informational and critical events relating to a pattern of errors specific to a database. Monitoring for errors on a business-critical database is essential to avoid unexpected outcomes such as a missed service-level agreement (SLA), which might result in penalties. A good […]

There are many different ways to achieve disaster recovery objectives based on business requirements, but finding the best option for a particular situation can get overwhelming. The innovation and commercial-grade features that come with Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition expands these options even further. This post outlines options available to customers running Aurora MySQL, and evaluates […]

Customers often use Amazon ElastiCache for real-time transactional and analytical use cases. It provides high throughout and low latencies, while meeting a variety of business needs. Because it uses in-memory data structures, typical use cases include database and session caching, as well as leaderboards, gaming and financial trading platforms, social media, and sharing economy apps. […]

Time series data is a sequence of data points recorded over a time interval. This type of data is used for measuring events that change over time, such as stock prices, temperature measurements, or CPU utilization of an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. With time series data, each data point consists of a […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6 and 4.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle provides newer versions of databases so you can keep your DB instances up to date. These versions can include bug fixes, security enhancements, and other improvements. When Amazon RDS for Oracle supports a new version, you can choose how and when to upgrade your DB instances. Amazon […]

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

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Extended Events. Extended Events (XEvents) is a lightweight performance monitoring system that enables you to collect data to monitor and troubleshoot problems in SQL Server. Extended Events is automatically enabled for users with primary user privileges in Amazon RDS for SQL Server. This post […]

This is a guest post from Finn Mulligan and Sanjaya Krishna, co-founders of AerLink Ltd, in partnership with Maggie Hsu, WW GTM Specialist for Amazon Managed Blockchain AerLink is a Seattle-based startup that is focused on transforming the aircraft leasing and financing industry. Aircraft leasing and financing is currently full of manual, time-intensive processes, and […]

In many database applications there arises a need to store large objects, such as files, along with application data. A common approach is to store these files inside the database itself, despite the fact that a database isn’t the architecturally best choice for storing large objects. Primarily, because file system APIs are relatively basic (such […]