AWS Database Blog

Vibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0

In this post, we explore how you can use Vercel’s v0 generative UI to build applications with a modern UI for AWS purpose-built databases such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon ElastiCache.

Beyond Correlation: Finding Root-Causes using a network digital twin graph and agentic AI

When your network fails, finding the root cause usually takes hours of investigations, going through correlated alarms that often lead to symptoms rather than the actual problem. Root-cause analysis (RCA) systems are often built on hardcoded rules, static thresholds, and pre-defined patterns that work great until they don’t. Whether you’re troubleshooting network-level outages or service-level degradations, those rigid rule sets can’t adapt to cascading failures and complex interdependencies. In this post, we show you our AWS solution architecture that features a network digital twin using graphs and Agentic AI. We also share four runbook design patterns for Agentic AI-powered graph-based RCA on AWS. Finally, we show how DOCOMO provides real-world validation from their commercial networks of our first runbook design pattern, showing drastic MTTD improvement with 15s for failure isolation in transport and Radio Access Networks.

Demystifying the AWS advanced JDBC wrapper plugins

In 2023, AWS introduced the AWS advanced JDBC wrapper, enhancing the capabilities of existing JDBC drivers with additional functionality. This wrapper enables support of AWS and Amazon Aurora functions on top of an existing PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MariaDB JDBC driver of your choice. This wrapper supports a variety of plugins, including the Aurora connection tracker plugin, the limitless connection plugin, and the read-write splitting plugin. In this post, we discuss the benefits, use cases, and implementation details for two popular AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper Driver plugins: the Aurora Initial Connection Strategy and Failover v2 plugins.

Enhanced throttling observability in Amazon DynamoDB

Today, we’re announcing improved observability for throttled requests in Amazon DynamoDB. These enhancements provide developers with enriched exception messages, detailed Amazon CloudWatch metrics, and a new, more cost-effective mode for CloudWatch Contributor Insights. Together, these improvements make it straightforward to understand, monitor, and optimize your DynamoDB applications’ performance. In this post, we explore how these […]

Announcing Extended Support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 3.6

Today, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announced that Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6 will reach end of life on March 30, 2026. Starting March 31, 2026, you can continue to run Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6 on Extended Support. Extended Support provides fixes for critical security issues and bugs through patch releases for three years beyond the end of standard support of Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6.

Scaling transaction peaks: Juspay’s approach using Amazon ElastiCache

Juspay powers global enterprises by streamlining payment process orchestration, enhancing security, reducing fraud, and providing seamless customer experiences. In this post, we walk you through how Juspay transformed their payment processing architecture to handle transaction peaks. Using Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon RDS for MySQL, Juspay built a system that processes 7.6 million transactions per hour during peak events, achieves sub-millisecond latency, and reduces infrastructure costs by 80% compared to their previous solution.

How Wiz achieved near-zero downtime for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL major version upgrades at scale using Aurora Blue/Green Deployments

Wiz, a leading cloud security company, identifies and removes risks across major cloud platforms. Our agent-less scanner processes tens of billions of daily cloud resource metadata entries. This demands high-performance, low-latency processing, making our Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database, serving hundreds of microservices at scale, a critical component of our architecture. In this post, we share how we upgraded our Aurora PostgreSQL database from version 14 to 16 with near-zero downtime using Amazon Aurora Blue/Green Deployments.

Simplify data integration using zero-ETL from Amazon RDS to Amazon Redshift

Organizations rely on real-time analytics to gain insights into their core business drivers, enhance operational efficiency, and maintain a competitive edge. Traditionally, this has involved the use of complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines. ETL is the process of combining, cleaning, and normalizing data from different sources to prepare it for analytics, AI, and […]