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Regular backups are a key component of designing business-critical applications to be resilient in the event of any failure situation. They provide many benefits, the most important being data protection, more efficient recovery of data in the event of disruptions, compliance with organization and legal requirements, and simplified maintenance. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) for DynamoDB provides […]

This post is a continuation of Automate benchmark tests for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. To recap, optimizing a database is an important activity for new and existing application workloads. You need to take cost, operations, performance, security, and reliability into consideration. Conducting benchmarks help with these considerations. With Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, you can run multiple […]

While managing databases at scale in AWS, there are certain scenarios where you may need to maintain an Amazon Aurora cluster in a single or multiple AWS accounts. These scenarios include but are not limited to mergers and acquisitions, consolidating all accounts to use only a single account, or compliance to maintain production and development […]

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Customers who prefer to host their Oracle database workloads in a managed service such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle or Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle do so because of the benefits offered by managed services. One of the major features that customers love about Amazon RDS for Oracle is the ease […]

Amazon DynamoDB supports transactions to give atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID), helping you maintain data consistency in your workloads. A database transaction is a sequence of multiple operations that are performed on one or more tables. These sequences of multiple operations represent a unit of work that is committed to the tables or rolled […]

Many global corporations are managing multiple supply chains, and they depend on those operations to not only deliver goods on time but to respond to divergent customer and supplier needs. According to a McKinsey study, it’s estimated that significant disruptions to production now occur every 3.7 years on average, adding new urgency to supply chain […]

When using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, managing updates is an ongoing management process for database administrators. Minor version updates are a component of this process—they contain database patches, and bug fixes are a much more common management task to orchestrate. AWS provides mechanisms that assist in applying updates, but you are able to decide when […]

In Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), an RDS event indicates a change in the environment. These events are delivered in real-time to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge. RDS events are notifications that are triggered by specific database events in Amazon RDS. These events can include automated backups, security updates, maintenance windows, and other changes […]

With the flexibility of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, you can customize your database, underlying server, and operating system configurations to support the various requirements of your workloads. In this series, we discuss best practices and step-by-step instructions to perform common customizations on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle without breaking the […]