AWS Database Blog

This post was updated May, 2022 to include resources for forecasting models and insights for time series data. Many organizations need to store time series data. Some organizations have applications designed to store and query large amounts of time series data such as collecting metrics from a fleet of internet of things (IoT) devices. Others […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. AWS re:Invent 2020 was a very different event than past re:Invents, given the travel shutdown imposed in response to COVID-19, but that didn’t stop the Amazon DocumentDB […]

A common use case in an enterprise cloud database adoption strategy is to move your database workloads to the cloud first, while slowly moving the rest of your applications in batches. This post looks into the various possible scenarios and configurations you can use when accessing an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL […]

Over the last 6 months, customers visited the following 20 Amazon DynamoDB documentation pages more than all others (the list is ordered from the most-visited page to the least). Use this list to see what other AWS customers have been reading and decide what to learn next. What Is Amazon DynamoDB? This brief introduction to […]

Amazon Aurora is a relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora has a distributed architecture that replicates a shared storage volume across three Availability Zones to provide a high availability solution with no data loss and failover time measured […]

This blog post includes links to the videos from the keynotes and Amazon DynamoDB sessions presented during AWS re:Invent 2020. This year’s conference was free and completely virtual, and featured 11 sessions about DynamoDB: eight at the advanced level and three at the expert level. To give you some idea of where to start, Rick Houlihan’s […]

The database refresh process consists of recreating of a target database using a consistent data copy of a source database, usually done for test and development purposes. Fully-managed database solutions such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora make it incredibly easy to do that. However, database administrators may need to run […]

We just wrapped up an exciting AWS re:Invent! This year, four sessions focused on Amazon ElastiCache, highlighting technical deep dives, new service announcements, best practices, and more. In case you missed one of these sessions, check out the session recordings, along with highlights from the speakers themselves, so you can learn more about the most […]

Organizations that store and process data in relational databases are making the shift to the cloud. As part of this shift, they often wish to modernize their application architectures and add new cloud-based capabilities. Chief among these are machine learning (ML)-based predictions such as product recommendations and fraud detection. The rich customer data available in […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Large-scale internet of things (IoT) applications generate data at fast rates, and many IoT implementations require data to be stored sequentially, based on date-time values generated either […]