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The advent of blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger on which digital assets can be created and exchanged peer to peer, has shifted the conventional understanding of ownership. Often, these digital assets are referred to as tokens, which you can use as a medium of exchange like a currency, a representation of a physical or digital […]

AWS re:Invent 2021 is here! This post includes a complete list of Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) sessions taking place at re:Invent 2021. This year we have five total sessions on Managed Blockchain and Amazon QLDB, including one breakout, three chalk talks sessions, and one workshop. Make sure to sign […]

Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications with highly connected datasets. You can use Neptune to build fraud detection, entity resolution, product recommendation, and knowledge graph applications. Built on open standards, Neptune enables developers to use three popular open-source graph query languages […]

Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (Amazon DMA) helps you accelerate migrations to AWS Databases and Analytics services. Amazon DMA is comprised of migration domain experts including engineers, who can assist you with your migration strategy and planning to deploying your applications and databases to a production environment. Amazon DMA helps build a strong foundation for AWS Databases […]

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to reflect a new parameter change in MySQL Community 8.0.28 that impacts Amazon Aurora MySQL release. MySQL 8.0 has introduced TempTable as the new, default internal temporary table storage engine to speed up query processing. The MySQL query optimizer creates temporary tables internally to store intermediate datasets […]

Customers have asked for a way to interact with graph datasets in Amazon Neptune using business intelligence (BI) tools such as Amazon QuickSight. Although some BI tools offer generic HTTP connectors that allow you to define a set of REST API calls to extract data from REST endpoints, you have to predefine either Gremlin or […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Many of our customers running SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances want to capture specific events (systems and user-defined) for monitoring and troubleshooting issues with SQL Server. SQL Server logs these events in its error logs and agent logs. A deadlock is an […]

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments are ideal for production database workloads. When you have Multi-AZ deployment, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provisions one primary and one standby DB instance with synchronous physical replication of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage for high availability and failover without data loss. However, you can’t read from the […]

In October 2020, we announced Redis 6 compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. This update included significant features like role-based access control (RBAC), client-side caching, and several operational improvements designed to improve application availability and reliability. Specifically, Amazon ElastiCache improved replication under low memory conditions, especially for workloads with medium and large-sized keys, by reducing […]

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis provides a convenient way to manage Redis at scale. You can use it for a variety of workloads, ranging from caching, session stores, real-time analytics, gaming leaderboards, and messaging. We’re always looking for ways to increase price/performance for our customers. Some examples include releasing enhanced I/O handling, which increased the throughput […]