AWS Database Blog

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 […]

Many integrated Oracle applications use external files as input. Oracle databases access such files via a logical object called a database directory. Apart from accessing the application files, Oracle databases also use database directories to access data pump backups, external tables, reading logs, and more. In the traditional on-premises client-server architecture, the database administrator has […]

November 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Developers and database administrators, often login remotely to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance on a public subnet and access the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance. For increased productivity and ease of use, in many cases, there is a need to […]

You’re moving your applications to the AWS Cloud and you want to migrate from a commercial database engine to an open source database. One thought that may have rightfully crossed your mind is that changing database engines is not a simple task. Rather, it can be a complex, multi-step process that involves pre-migration assessments, converting […]

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Database migrations can be challenging projects. With a mix of unique business requirements, specific data models and architectures, and technical risk, these projects often seem daunting. To help tackle these challenges, a team can apply planning, design, and testing methods to help navigate their unique project needs. In this post, Edin Zulich (AWS Principal NoSQL […]