AWS Database Blog

In a multi-tenant environment, the process of identifying the database isolation strategy most suitable for your workload is essential. Your isolation strategy ensures that one tenant cannot access another tenant’s data, and defines how the actions of tenants affect one another. The isolation strategy is driven by a combination of business, domain, security, cost, resiliency, […]

This post is co-written with Sanjna Srivatsa, Data Scientist at VMware. Amazon DynamoDB provides discounts ranging from 50 percent to 77 percent to customers who commit to paying for a minimum usage level, called reserved capacity. In this post, you learn how to use historical DynamoDB usage data to make your first DynamoDB reserved capacity […]

Selecting the right cloud management tool is extremely important for many enterprises. In the post 5 Tips for Keeping Pace with AWS’s Innovation, we briefly discussed the high-level strategies to overcome the challenges of continuous improvement and drive innovations in your organization. In this post, we show how infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions built with […]

Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto scaling configuration for Aurora. It scales the capacity up or down based on your application’s needs. It enables you to run your database in the cloud without managing any database capacity. Aurora Serverless v2 supports Amazon Aurora Global Database , Multi AZ, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]

This is a guest post by Sagi Tsofan, Senior Software Engineer at Wiz in partnership with AWS. At Wiz, it’s all about scale. Our platform ingests metadata and telemetry for tens of billions of cloud resources every day. Our agentless scanner collects massive amounts of data that needs to be processed very efficiently. As our […]

Some migrations might take a long time because they have large tables. However, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) features such as parallel load and filters might be able to help speed up this process. AWS DMS is a data migration service that has robust features for supporting both homogenous and heterogeneous database migrations. AWS […]

Engaging with the customers at AWS re:Invent is always a great opportunity for us to learn more about their use cases, get their feedback on our services, and present new features and capabilities. The Amazon Managed Blockchain team conducted a series of presentations and workshops that focused on how customers are using blockchain technology and […]

An Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database is a key building block of a highly available application. Business-critical workloads can leverage Amazon Aurora database clusters in Multi-AZ configuration to help improve their overall uptime, and reduce the impact of availability-related events such as Multi-AZ failovers. In this post, we discuss aspects of Amazon Aurora related to […]

Point-in-time recovery (PITR) in Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed capability that creates continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. Continuous backups are important to ensure business continuity and compliance with regulations, and to protect against human errors, such as unintended writes or deletes. When PITR is enabled for a DynamoDB table, DynamoDB automatically backs […]

As applications grow, data grows as well, so it’s imperative for a modern cloud-based application to have a database that can automatically scale. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed, native JSON database built with a flexible schema for enterprise applications that decouples storage and compute, improving scalability and reducing time-consuming administrative tasks. […]