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On 28-Oct-22, the AWS CloudFormation template and Jupyter notebook linked in this post were updated to 1/ add openCypher queries along with the existing Gremlin and SPARQL queries, 2/ updated to use Sagemaker newer Amazon Linux 2 instances, 3/ fixed a bug in the RDF generation code that improperly labeled a property as an RDF […]

One of the common challenges to unlocking the value of graph databases is building easy-to-use, customer-facing data tools that expose graph-powered insights in impactful and visual ways. Data engineers need to inspect data quality, data scientists need to perform discovery and inspect models, analysts need to investigate connections, and managers need insight into what’s going […]

Migrating from commercial databases to open source is a multistage process with different technologies, starting from assessment, data migration, data validation, and cutover. One of the key aspects for any heterogenous database migration is data type conversion. In this post, we show you a step-by-step approach to migrate user-defined types (UDT) from Oracle to Amazon […]

In the first post in this series, Preparing on-premises and AWS environments for external Kerberos authentication for Amazon RDS, we built the infrastructure for a one-way forest trust between an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain (trust: incoming) and an AWS Managed Microsoft AD domain (trust: outgoing) provided by AWS Directory Service. In this post, […]

In the first post in this series, Preparing on-premises and AWS environments for external Kerberos authentication for Amazon RDS, we built the infrastructure for a one-way forest trust between an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain (trust: incoming) and an AWS Managed Microsoft AD domain (trust: outgoing) provided by AWS Directory Service. In this post, […]

In the first post in this series, Preparing on-premises and AWS environments for external Kerberos authentication for Amazon RDS, we built the infrastructure for a one-way forest trust between an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain (trust: incoming) and an AWS Managed Microsoft AD domain (trust: outgoing) provided by AWS Directory Service. In this post, […]

As database security becomes more and more essential to the success of a business, managing user access to databases effectively has always been a challenge to database administrators (DBAs) and security officers. Traditional database authentication is based on a username-password mechanism. This method unfortunately requires effort from both DBAs and users to maintain the credentials; […]

MariaDB Server is one of the world’s most popular open source relational databases. It is available in the standard repositories of all major Linux and Windows distributions. The MariaDB Foundation ensures a steady cadence of releases. On average, MariaDB Server has had one stable major release every year. The current supported versions are 10.2, 10.3, […]

This post describes how to configure Oracle Connection Manager on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle environment, and introduces some best practice use cases when using Oracle Connection Manager on Amazon EC2. Some customers want to have a database proxy server that forwards database connection […]

July 2024, this post has been reviewed for accuracy. Hundreds of thousands of customers use Amazon DynamoDB for mission-critical workloads. In some situations, you may want to migrate your DynamoDB tables into a different AWS account, for example, in the eventuality of a company being acquired by another company. Another use case is adopting a […]