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As you migrate Oracle workloads to AWS, you may want to implement Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control in AWS. OEM is Oracle’s management platform, which provides a single pane of glass for managing Oracle environments. In this post, we provide two solutions to implement OEM high availability in AWS. The first solution is Oracle’s […]

With customers scaling up their AWS workloads across hundreds, if not thousands of AWS resources, customers have expressed the need to centrally manage and monitor their backups. They want to have a standardized way to manage their backups at scale. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services. AWS Backup […]

Generally, DBAs use Oracle Data Pump to move data around for activities like migrating existing data from Oracle on-premises to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle or refreshing Oracle on-premises by exporting data from Amazon RDS for Oracle. As of this writing, after you create an RDS DB instance, you can’t decrease the […]

Ethereum is a popular public blockchain that makes it possible to create unstoppable applications in a permissionless fashion. It’s available to every user that has an Ethereum account. These Ethereum accounts consist of a private and an associated public key. The main challenge as a user participating in a public blockchain such as Ethereum is […]

Ethereum is a popular public blockchain that makes it possible to create unstoppable applications in a permissionless fashion. It’s available to every user that has an Ethereum account. These Ethereum accounts consist of a private and an associated public key. The main challenge as a user participating in a public blockchain such as Ethereum is […]

The COVID-19 pandemic presented enterprises with various challenges. Enterprises notably need to safeguard employees, partners, and customers when they return to the office. Holistic workforce strategies require a combination of preventative screening tools and detailed contact tracing solutions. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) quickly responded and adapted to develop Check-In, powered by AWS. Check-In provides companies with […]

Organizations typically store business and customer data in databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Redshift, and often want to enrich this data by integrating with external services. One such enrichment is to add spatial attributes such as location coordinates for an address. With the introduction of Amazon Location Service, you now […]

This post describes how to configure Oracle Database Resident Connection Pool (DRCP) in an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle environment. You can use DRCP with application servers that can’t do middle-tier connection pooling. You can also use DRCP to manage hundreds or thousands of database connections from clients spread across multiple application […]

Ready to get started with Amazon ElastiCache? Introducing the new learning path Amazon ElastiCache: In-memory data store fundamentals, use cases, and examples. ElastiCache is a managed in-memory caching service compatible with Redis and Memcached, enabling you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale in-memory data stores in the cloud. In this new learning path, follow […]

May 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Monitoring databases is essential for any DBA, from dev-test databases to mission-critical databases. You want to capture system and user-defined events for monitoring and troubleshooting problems related to your database instance. MySQL records these events in error logs. In this post, we show you how […]