AWS Database Blog

Since its release in 2012, Amazon DynamoDB has become a fully managed, multi-region, multimaster database service designed to deliver fast and predictable performance at any scale. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database that provides three options for performing operations: a web-based console, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and a set of SDKs for a number […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source relational database systems. With more than 30 years of development work, PostgreSQL has proven to be a highly reliable and robust database that can handle a large number of complicated data workloads. PostgreSQL is considered to be the primary […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools as you do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB. This way, you can enjoy improved performance, scalability, and availability without having to […]

September 2022: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Scaling up database capacity can be a tedious and risky business. Even veteran developers and database administrators who understand the nuanced behavior of their database and application perform this work cautiously. Despite the current era of sharded NoSQL clusters, increasing capacity can take hours, days, or weeks. […]

As customers move to the cloud, they’re looking for the best tools to run their applications. When considering relational databases, Amazon Aurora is a frequent choice. This is no surprise, given that Amazon Aurora is MySQL and PostgreSQL wire-compatible and that it can provide greater throughput than either. Aurora provides up to five times the […]

Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database, optimized for storing and querying highly connected data. It is ideal for online applications that rely on navigating and leveraging connections in their data. Amazon Neptune supports W3C RDF graphs that can be queried using the SPARQL query language. It also supports Apache TinkerPop property […]

Time-series data shows a pattern of change over time. For example, you might have a fleet of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that record environmental data through their sensors, as shown in the following example graph. This data could include temperature, pressure, humidity, and other environmental variables. Because each IoT device tracks these values over […]

In this blog post, I cover how to build a quick start reference deployment of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster. The cluster is based on AWS best practices for security and high availability and you can create it quickly by using AWS CloudFormation. I walk through a set of sample CloudFormation templates, which you can customize […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. A common pattern for web application architecture includes a database for application data coupled with a search engine for searching that data. Many relational and even nonrelational databases offer rudimentary search capabilities. However, search engines add true, complex, natural-language search […]

Reviewed and updated on June 2022. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) supports native backup and restore for Microsoft SQL Server databases. If you have multiple AWS accounts, you can perform native backup and restore across these accounts, provided that your Amazon RDS instance and the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket are in […]