AWS Database Blog

  Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Amazon Aurora MySQL is compatible with MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7, and is now also compatible with MySQL 8.0. Today, we made Aurora MySQL […]

For many organizations, performance is a key priority for databases that need to handle a high load. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a managed service with a cost-efficient, reliable, and highly scalable database offering which makes it a suitable use case for such requirements. In this post, I walk you through benchmarking Amazon […]

This post was written by guest authors, Rodrigo Roim, Marcos Arribas, and Anu Sharma from Statsig. Today, developers use feature gates to control feature roll out to manage the risk of bad deployments, but some remain blind to how customers would respond to a new feature. Statsig is a modern feature management and product experimentation […]

February 2024: This post was reviewed and updated with the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) integration in RDS for Oracle. The updates show how to use RDS for Oracle as source for Real Application Testing (RAT). Customers running databases in a self-managed environment face many challenges, such as scalability, performance, maintenance overhead, and reliability. To […]

October 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Customers running on an on-premises environment often face the challenges of scalability, performance, cost, and reliability. To increase resiliency, performance, and scalability, AWS has become the new norm to help and offer companies the benefits of the AWS Cloud. In this post, we use Oracle Real Application […]

In our last series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) , we discussed disaster recovery (DR) terminology and compared the DR solutions available for SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). In this series, we continue to cover the DR solutions available for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) […]

The initial challenge that database administrators (DBA) encounter when planning disaster recovery (DR) for SQL Server is choosing from the many options available. The challenge does not stop there as DBAs must implement the selected technology and ensure that best practices are applied. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a managed service that makes […]

Amazon Timestream is a serverless time series database that customers across a broad range of industry verticals have adopted to derive real-time insights, monitor critical business applications, and analyze millions of real-time events across websites and applications. By analyzing these diverse workloads, in conjunction with the query access patterns and query concurrency requirements, we made […]

When configuring AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) endpoints, you previously had to maintain the source and target credentials in plain text. In December 2020, we announced the integration of AWS DMS and AWS Secrets Manager, which allows you to take advantage of the built-in credential management capability in Secrets Manager to manage, retrieve, and […]

This is a guest post by Ramesh Sencha, Lead Cloud Engineer at Coupa. Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP) is a leader in Business Spend Management (BSM). Coupa enables companies around the world with the visibility and control they need to spend smarter and safer. Coupa offers value to over 2,000 customers across the globe as a […]