AWS Database Blog

December 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Customers choose Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server because it manages time-consuming database administration tasks including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling. With Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you can enable single-click high availability by enabling the Multi-AZ flag in […]

We use bulk data loading to move data from a source to a destination database for migration or load testing. Bulk data importing into MySQL databases can take several minutes to hours and sometimes even days depending upon the amount of data that needs to be loaded. Creating a dump file takes a small amount […]

In this post, we show you how to archive older, less frequently accessed document collections stored in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon S3 provides a highly durable, cost-effective archive […]

Customers running end of support (EOS) Microsoft SQL Server workloads on premises often ask us how they can confidently migrate those workloads to AWS fully managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployment […]

This guest post is co-authored by Ryota Shima, Application Architect, and Kazuki Matsumura, Lead Architect at NRI Digital. NRI Digital has a wide variety of systems in production, both on-premises and cloud-based. Among them, many systems are built on AWS, and Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are often used as the […]

Many customers are faced with the challenge of building and operating a hybrid infrastructure to support workloads that must run both in the cloud and on premises. In many cases, these hybrid workloads rely on a relational database to support the workload, which can be particularly challenging to build and support across a hybrid infrastructure. […]

Ownership is one of the core tenets of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)—you can own an NFT and prove that you own it. On blockchain, such a proof of ownership means that the NFT is in a wallet that the owner controls. Only the owner has the private key to that wallet, and only the owner can […]

When you use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora, you may have noticed that the IP addresses of your database instances keep changing. There are several reasons for this. The IP address changes when the primary database of Amazon RDS fails over to a standby database. Furthermore, when Amazon RDS is restarted […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. DynamoDB can store and retrieve any amount of data. As the data grows and becomes cold, many use cases such as session management or order management require archival of the older unneeded items. DynamoDB has a feature […]

You may have a workload where you want to automate scaling, such as a reporting application with unpredictable increases in queries, or an application with database utilization increasing at predictable times like end-of-month reporting. Scaling a database to appropriately handle workload demand is important to help manage cost, operations, performance, security, and reliability. With Amazon […]