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Twilio is a customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalized experiences for leading brands. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, and video by virtualizing the world’s telecommunications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. Twilio supports an […]

Graph databases are uniquely designed to address query patterns focused on relationships within a given dataset. From a relational database perspective, graph traversals can be represented as a series of table joins, or recursive common table expressions (CTEs). Not only are these types of SQL query patterns computationally expensive and complex to write (especially for […]

Graph databases are uniquely designed to address query patterns focused on relationships within a given dataset. From a relational database perspective, graph traversals can be represented as a series of table joins, or recursive common table expressions (CTEs). Not only are these types of SQL query patterns computationally expensive and complex to write (especially for […]

Graph databases are uniquely designed to address query patterns focused on relationships within a given dataset. From a relational database perspective, graph traversals can be represented as a series of table joins, or recursive common table expressions (CTEs). Not only are these types of SQL query patterns computationally expensive and complex to write (especially for […]

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is a capability for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition that enables Amazon Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. When migrating from SQL Server to Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, the first step is often a feasibility and compatibility assessment. You can use the Babelfish Compass tool to generate […]

Customers are modernizing their mission-critical legacy on-premises IBM Db2 for z/OS databases to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition for its scalability, performance, agility, and availability. You can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to simplify the schema conversion from Db2 for z/OS to Amazon RDS […]

Over the last few years, organizations have started adopting a cloud first strategy, and we are seeing enterprises migrate their mission-critical applications, along with their data platforms, to the cloud. Occasionally, organizations need guidance in selecting the right service and solution in the cloud, along with an approach to assist with the migration. In this […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports trusted PL/Rust, allowing developers to safely build high-performance database functions in the Rust programming language. PL/Rust is an open-source project that lets you write Rust code that runs directly inside a PostgreSQL database, and provides support for PostgreSQL features such as running queries, writing trigger […]

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora has a history of innovating around database engines and the underlying infrastructure running the database, while maintaining compatibility. A commonly used feature of […]

Amazon Aurora Global Database is specifically designed to meet the needs of globally distributed applications. It replicates your data across AWS Regions with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each Region, and provides disaster recovery from Region-wide outages. Many organizations use Aurora Global Database in a headless configuration. […]