AWS Database Blog

Database administrators and developers traditionally schedule scripts to run against databases using the system cron on the host where the database is running or using database schedulers, resulting in a tight coupling with the batch scripts and the database. Many Oracle database applications use files stored in a shared file system volume that is mounted […]

With AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), you can migrate data between SQL, NoSQL, and text-based targets. With Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you can store and protect any amount of data for virtually any use case, such as data lakes, cloud-native applications, and mobile apps. In this post, we demonstrate how to improve […]

December 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Customers choose Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server because it manages time-consuming database administration tasks including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling. With Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you can enable single-click high availability by enabling the Multi-AZ flag in […]

We use bulk data loading to move data from a source to a destination database for migration or load testing. Bulk data importing into MySQL databases can take several minutes to hours and sometimes even days depending upon the amount of data that needs to be loaded. Creating a dump file takes a small amount […]

In this post, we show you how to archive older, less frequently accessed document collections stored in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon S3 provides a highly durable, cost-effective archive […]

Customers running end of support (EOS) Microsoft SQL Server workloads on premises often ask us how they can confidently migrate those workloads to AWS fully managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployment […]

This guest post is co-authored by Ryota Shima, Application Architect, and Kazuki Matsumura, Lead Architect at NRI Digital. NRI Digital has a wide variety of systems in production, both on-premises and cloud-based. Among them, many systems are built on AWS, and Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are often used as the […]

Many customers are faced with the challenge of building and operating a hybrid infrastructure to support workloads that must run both in the cloud and on premises. In many cases, these hybrid workloads rely on a relational database to support the workload, which can be particularly challenging to build and support across a hybrid infrastructure. […]

Ownership is one of the core tenets of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)—you can own an NFT and prove that you own it. On blockchain, such a proof of ownership means that the NFT is in a wallet that the owner controls. Only the owner has the private key to that wallet, and only the owner can […]

When you use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora, you may have noticed that the IP addresses of your database instances keep changing. There are several reasons for this. The IP address changes when the primary database of Amazon RDS fails over to a standby database. Furthermore, when Amazon RDS is restarted […]