AWS Database Blog

This is a guest post co-authored by Amr Elnaggar, Saurabh Deshpande, Mohammad Azzam, Matias Pons and Wilson Tang from Delivery Hero. Delivery Hero is available in 74 countries around the World. It operates a wide range of local brands that are united behind the shared mission Always Delivering an Amazing Experience — fast, easy, and […]

Consistency is one of the most crucial characteristics of relational database systems. Even though every system has their own mechanisms for providing consistency based on the database engine, sometimes you may lack consistency for several reasons, such as I/O hardware and firmware, OS issues, the database engine software, and recovering from UNRECOVERABLE or NOLOGGING database […]

This is a guest post by Miguel Alpendre (Engineering Manager at OLX Group), Rodrigo Lopes (Senior Software Engineer at OLX Group), and Carlos Tarilonte (Senior Developer at OLX Group) in partnership with Luís Rodrigues Soares (Solution Architect at AWS). At OLX, we operate the world’s fastest-growing network of trading platforms. Serving 300 million people every […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a managed service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL database. Amazon RDS provides two different methods for backing up and restoring […]

Organizations are looking for ways to better leverage their data to improve their business operations. With Amazon Aurora, Aurora Machine Learning, and Amazon SageMaker, you can train machine learning (ML) services quickly and directly integrate the ML model with your existing Aurora data to better serve your customers. In this post, we demonstrate how a […]

For manufacturers it’s important to track transformations and transfers of products as they travel through the supply chain. In the event of quality issues, the ability to quickly and accurately identify a defective product and gather data for root cause analysis and containment is critical. NXP Semiconductors has been working to improve its product traceability […]

Common language runtime (CLR) integration is an option to host .NET code within SQL Server programmatic objects like stored procedures, functions, and triggers, and adding user-defined data types. Since its introduction in SQL Server 2005, CLR integration has gained popularity within the SQL Server community for its additional flexibility and options to import .NET code […]

In the first three posts of this four-part series, you learned how the choice of zonal or Regional services impacts availability, and some important characteristics of Amazon DynamoDB when used in a multi-Region context with global tables. Part 1 also covered the motivation for using multiple Regions. Part 2 discussed some important characteristics of DynamoDB. […]

In the first two posts of this four-part series, you learned how the choice of zonal or Regional services impacts availability and some important characteristics of Amazon DynamoDB when used in a multi-Region context with global tables. Part 1 also covered the motivation for using multiple AWS Regions. Part 2 discussed some important characteristics of […]

In the first post of this series, you learned about the differences between zonal, Regional, and global services, and how they affect theoretical application availability. In this post, you’ll learn more about some important Amazon DynamoDB characteristics and how they impact multi-Region design. Properties of DynamoDB tables in a single Region DynamoDB is a NoSQL […]