AWS Database Blog

In Part 1 of this series, we provided a high-level introduction to the AWS Nitro System and explained why Nitro is well suited for flexible and secure blockchain key management workloads. In this post, we guide you through the steps to configure aspects like AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key policies and how to […]

Public blockchains are used for a variety of use cases, like decentralized finance (DeFi) apps, non-fungible token (NFT) apps, or cross-border payments. Blockchains differ in their protocol and consensus design, implementation language, and smart contract capabilities. Determining how external participants can be incentivized to join a network running their own node is key in economic […]

Customers running their business-critical workloads on SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE) databases can modernize them by migrating to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and be able to keep Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as their preferred database programming language and Tabular Data Stream (TDS) as their communication protocol, which accelerates the migration and […]

This is post is co-authored by BubKwan Lee, head of the e-commerce development team at Shinsegae International. Like any other industry, the retail industry is rapidly accelerating its digital transformation to meet ever-changing consumer needs. In particular, the retail luxury industry, where online and second-hand transactions are increasing, is investing heavily in efforts to create […]

We are excited to announce the availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.4.7. This version provides improvements covering security, performance, and connectivity that were requested by many of our customers. In this post, we highlight a few key features. For the entire list of improvements, refer to AWS DMS release […]

November 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In this post, we provide a solution to access Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) across AWS accounts and VPCs, without using VPC peering with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) or AWS Transit Gateway. We use AWS PrivateLink and Network Load Balancer to redirect database traffic […]

Automating the management of the compute resources associated with your Amazon Neptune database cluster can save you time and money. The most significant cost when running Neptune for your graph workloads are the compute resources in the database cluster. If you’re also using associated resources such as Amazon SageMaker notebook instances, which you can use […]

There are different strategies you can leverage to migrate an on-premises SQL Server workload to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. All of them come with pros and cons. The following are some high-level migration challenges that you may encounter during your analysis and implementation phase: Lift and shift (backup and […]

Amazon Neptune is purpose-built to store and navigate relationships. This provides advantages over relational databases for use cases like social networking, recommendation engines, and fraud detection, where you need to create relationships between data and quickly query these relationships. At AWS, security is Job Zero. Neptune offers several security features, including network isolation, encryption, and […]

An Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition cluster consists of a primary/writer node and up to 15 reader nodes in a Region. You may offload read-only workloads to reader nodes to scale-out reads. Long-running queries on reader nodes that are accessing tables with high transactional activities on the primary node can cause conflicts, and lead to undesirable […]