AWS Database Blog

Industry analyst firm Gartner has published its annual report evaluating cloud-based data and analytics services, the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. AWS was once again named a Leader and placed highest among 20 recognized vendors for its “Ability to Execute.” We’re honored by the recognition from the highly respected technology adviser, and […]

The commercialization of Web 3.0 protocols has led to an explosion of applications in the areas of decentralized finance (DeFi) and digital asset tokenization on blockchains, both public and private. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are an increasingly popular way of providing proof of ownership and authenticity of digital assets. Many large enterprises, in particular those with […]

This is a guest post by Ashwin Nair, Director, Product Engineering at Near, in partnership with AWS Senior Solutions Architect, Kayalvizhi Kandasamy. For several years, Near operated multiple Kyoto Tycoon clusters for its real-time bidding (RTB) platform. To improve availability and reduce latency, Near migrated to Amazon ElastiCache, a fully managed in-memory caching service. In […]

Customers have asked for the right solution to safeguard their data on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and meet their current Recovery Point Objective (RPO), the maximum acceptable amount of time since the last backup and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), the maximum acceptable delay between the interruption of service and restoration […]

You can use SQL to query time series data in Amazon Timestream, and with SQL you can rewrite a query in multiple ways to get the same results. Although several queries may produce the same result, their performance, cost profile, and complexity can be different, and therefore it’s important to identify the right query. With […]

Caching enables the best user experience for real-time applications. You can build applications that provide sub-millisecond response times by storing the most frequently requested data in an in-memory cache like Redis. On August 30, 2021, we announced the support for migrating your data from supported sources to Redis, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, and Amazon MemoryDB […]

Walchem is a leading manufacturer of online analytical instruments and electronic metering pumps. Their mission is to provide the integration of sensor, pump, and electronic technologies for chemical control. Walchem’s Fluent platform provides cloud-based telemetry and monitoring within water treatment facilities, enabling facility operators to gather insights into how the facility is operating and whether […]

Large customer database infrastructures are often deployed with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), which includes various engine types such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon RDS and your AWS solutions. To debug multi-point failures, we recommend that you collect monitoring data from all parts […]

Precognition, the ability to see events in the future, has always fascinated humankind. We probably will get there someday, but time series forecasting gets you close. The human brain is naturally trained to anticipate future events by analyzing the past, but the brain often makes only linear predictions because it can’t analyze the amount of […]

The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) accelerates migration for commercial database and data warehouse schemas along with code objects to open-source engines or AWS-native services, such as Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift. For your database migration to the cloud, you can choose a rehost (lift and shift), replatform (lift and reshape), or refactor approach. […]