AWS Database Blog

In the world of digital assets, private keys have always been of utmost importance. Unlike traditional assets, digital assets are controlled by private keys (a string of letters and numbers), just like passwords, which unlock the right to manage and use assets. Private keys can be used to irreversibly transfer funds from the wallet, thus, […]

This post is co-written with Holger Macht and Mike Matsumoto from Zalando. Zalando is a leading European online shop for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, Zalando brings head-to-toe fashion to over 50 million active customers, offering clothing, footwear, accessories, and beauty supplies. The assortment of international brands ranges from world-famous names to […]

Open Raven is a leader in automated multi-cloud data security. Open Raven is the data security posture management company that prevents leaks, breaches, and compliance incidents. The Open Raven Data Security Platform connects to your cloud environment within minutes and works over native APIs and serverless functions. The Open Raven Data Security Platform works at cloud […]

In this post, we walk through an example for creating an active-active replication setup between two RDS for PostgreSQL instances. We also show how to monitor replication lag between instances, and review how to detect and resolve conflicts. Finally, we discuss strategies to design applications to work with pgactive.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a fully managed service that helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. Every customer’s use cases are unique; you can use AWS DMS not only for a one-time data migration solution but also to replicate the data as per the requirements of your downstream applications. In […]

Amazon Managed Blockchain and many partners of AWS offer a convenient way to use Ethereum nodes without operating your own infrastructure. But sometimes, when you want to run archive nodes or participate in Ethereum staking, the managed nodes aren’t enough, and you may choose to run your own Ethereum nodes on AWS. To run a […]

This post is co-written with Peter Fein, Staff Engineer 2 at VMware VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, consolidated a multi-tenant, self-managed, 166-node sharded MySQL databases to Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS Proxy. The goal was to support long-term, continuous, multi-factor data growth on their platform while improving reliability and simplifying operations. VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is […]

In this post, we guide you through the steps to setting up Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database activity streams (DAS) for monitoring in IBM Guardium. Here, we are using IBM Guardium version 11.5. Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, ACID-compliant relational database engine that combines the speed, reliability, and manageability of Amazon Aurora with […]

Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize how personal digital records are managed, stored, and shared, because it offers unique features such as immutability, transparency, security, and decentralization. The application possibilities of blockchain technology in the context of personal digital records encompass various potential use cases, including but not limited to: Create decentralized digital identity […]

When developing an application with Amazon DynamoDB, sometimes you want new items inserted into a table to have an ever-increasing sequence number. Some databases call this auto-increment and automatically populate the value on insert. Example use-cases could be giving a customer order or a support ticket a numeric identifier. DynamoDB doesn’t provide auto-increment as an […]