AWS Database Blog

Amazon DynamoDB re:Invent 2022 recap

Learn how customers like Intuit, Trustpilot, Hulu, Fidelity and Reltio are building serverless, event-driven, and scalable applications on DynamoDB. For the Amazon DynamoDB team, the 2022 AWS re:Invent was once again an incredible experience to connect and reconnect with our customers. Throughout the week, we interacted with dozens of customers to learn what is top-of-mind for […]

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) re:Invent 2022 recap

The Amazon Keyspaces team had a great time meeting with many of you at AWS re:Invent 2022. It was particularly exciting to experience re:Invent at its peak in-person attendance. The team enjoyed listening to your feedback and use cases, and understanding what you want us to build next. We work backwards from these conversations and feedback […]

VPC endpoint considerations for upgrading or creating AWS DMS version 3.4.7 or higher

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) version 3.4.7 and above includes support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) VPC endpoints and makes it easier to maintain end-to-end network configuration within the same AWS region for replication tasks. To learn more about VPC endpoints, refer to Connect your VPC to services using AWS PrivateLink. In […]

Migrate Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle over a database link for space savings and reclamation

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale an Oracle database in the cloud. One of its features is storage auto scaling, which allows the database storage to grow automatically, as needed, up to the maximum capacity (64 TiB) […]

Generate Excel workbooks from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. When using databases, you may need to move data into different systems, including other databases or other tools, to perform different analysis. One method to do this is through flat files, such as comma-separated value lists (CSVs), as these let you transfer data in a common format […]

Persist your OS-level customization within Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Custom Engine Version (CEV)

Customers running their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server ask us how they can persist changes at the operating system (OS) level even if Amazon RDS chooses to perform a host replacement. In the context of RDS Custom for SQL Server, a host replacement is when […]

Upgrade Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL version 10

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL version 10 end of life is approaching. If you’re currently running your Aurora or RDS instances on PostgreSQL 10, you must upgrade your databases. Announcement: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10.x end of life is January 31, 2023 Announcement: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 10.x […]

Reduce network transfer time with connection compression in Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB

Our customers have seen many cases where network bandwidth between the MySQL client and database becomes the source of bottleneck. This leads to increase in the query latencies causing performance impact. This is especially seen for workloads which have high network bandwidth requirement. MySQL and MariaDB solve this problem by allowing you to compress traffic […]

Automate tasks in Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle using AWS Systems Manager documents

End of support notice: On March 31, 2027, AWS will end support for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Existing customers can continue using the service until March 31, 2027. After March 31, 2027, you will no longer be able to access RDS Custom for Oracle resources including database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions. We […]

How AWS DMS handles open transactions when starting a full load and CDC task

For a relational database management system (RDBMS), consistency is one of the crucial properties of a transaction – it defines the rules for maintaining data points in a correct state after a transaction. The consistency of the data ensures that transactions only make changes to tables in predefined, predictable ways thereby preventing unintended consequences for […]