AWS Database Blog

You can migrate your databases into Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server in multiple ways. Typically, you perform a simple backup and restore of the databases (along with scripting system objects such as logins). If you want a higher availability or lower downtime option, you might use the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). In […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES). In this and future blog posts, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. Introduction On April 2, 2018, we […]

We are happy to announce support for R4 memory-optimized instances of Amazon EC2 in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). These instances come with more memory and higher network bandwidth to help support migrations requiring higher throughput and memory-intensive operations. Here you can see the lineup of instances that is supported in DMS. Now that […]

Most often, when we discuss Amazon ElastiCache, it is in the context of enhancing the performance of read-heavy database workloads. We update our applications to employ a read-through or write-through pattern to keep data in the cache fresh and ease the burden on the database. When used in this context, ElastiCache accelerates your high volume […]

April 01, 2020 update: Changed the security to add a least privileged IAM policy to the role instead of a wide open managed policy, switched to HttpApi in API Gateway for auto-deployment as well as cost, and added to node.js code to detect if a requesting client is base64 encoding the body of the request and […]

Managing and operating relational databases is a basic piece of maintaining an effective business. Relational databases come in many flavors—commercial (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, and so on) and open source (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and so on). With innovation and improvements in the open-source database world and cloud computing platforms like AWS, many enterprises are […]

Cloudability is a cloud cost-management platform that empowers enterprises to run with known cloud financials and full accountability. Our platform collects an avalanche of billing and utilization data points—33 million per resource, with over 275,000 services and options from each cloud vendor and more than 1,000 new services rolled out annually per cloud provider. Using […]

When you deploy Microsoft SQL Server on AWS, you have many choices for how to optimize the performance, availability, reliability, and costs of your applications. Amazon offers multiple SQL Server versions, broad compute options, and numerous licensing options to optimize usage and reduce costs. You can choose the pay-as-you-go model and use the AWS license-included […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Welcome to this introductory series on Elasticsearch and Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES). In this and future blog posts, we provide the basic information that you need to get started with Elasticsearch on AWS. Introduction If you are using an […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this blog post, we show how you can secure your Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) domain with authentication and authorization based on Microsoft Active Directory (AD). You do so by using an Nginx reverse proxy, running custom authorization code. […]