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Customers developing software as a service (SaaS) applications often need to send outgoing webhooks (HTTP call-backs in response to events) to other SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Marketo, or ServiceNow. When processing webhooks, you often have to implement custom logic or services to enqueue and emit these events. This introduces additional complexity and operational overhead. […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks, such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications, so you can give them the […]

Time series data is one of the fastest growing categories of source data used by organizations to provide better services, analysis, and insights to their end-users. High on the list of requirements is the speed at which streaming data can be ingested and accessed by existing and new applications. One of the enabling technologies being […]

It’s data, data everywhere! To turn data into information, and information into insight, we need to understand our data to its full extent and make use of the statistics derived from it. Applying the obtained results successfully while making business decisions remains a challenge for most organizations, even today. This is partly due to the […]

If you have large mission-critical workloads running on an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database, you may be looking for ways to migrate to AWS with minimal to near-zero downtime. In this post, we show you a solution for migrating your on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon Relational Database (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server using the […]

Relational database engines are typically monolithic by design, therefore the easiest method to horizontally scale a workload on them is to scale read operations with multiple read replicas. Some of the strongest motivations for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adoption include low replication lag and the ability to spin up a reader node in minutes regardless […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle provides the option to take manual DB snapshots of your databases. These DB snapshots may have to be retained for regulatory purposes or just as backups taken before any major database or application activities like upgrades or releases. When you create a DB snapshot, the snapshot is […]

Most organizations need to monitor activity on databases containing sensitive information to ensure security auditing and compliance. Although some security operations teams might be interested in monitoring all activities like read, write, and logons, others might want to restrict monitoring to activities that lead to changes in data and data structures only. In this post, […]

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) is a ledger database that provides a complete and verifiable history of all transactions committed to the ledger. In Amazon QLDB, data records are called documents and are versioned. Documents use a JSON-like format called Amazon Ion. Changes to documents are called revisions and are written to the ledger […]

This is the second of a two-part post. In Part 1, we discussed various approaches to upgrade Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition databases and explained the high-level steps in these approaches. In this post, we demonstrate how to upgrade an RDS for PostgreSQL database using the pglogical […]