AWS Database Blog

Many organizations with critical workloads and global footprints need a strategy to tolerate Region-wide outages. This requires making a trade-off between availability, Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and cost. You should consider using a tiered approach to meet your compliance and budgetary needs. When developing a cross-Region disaster recovery (DR) strategy, an important consideration is the […]

Blockchain is a versatile, shared digital ledger that finds applications in various industries, including banking, automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics. It offers end-to-end solutions by enabling automation, transparency, security, and cost-effective organizational systems that increase overall efficiency. In shipping operations, ledger technologies like blockchain brings a paradigm shift in the system by making it reliable […]

Modernizing database workloads and architecture is the optimal way to increase efficiencies and reduce licensing and infrastructure costs. To achieve this, you can use an Amazon Aurora relational database to break free from legacy database solutions. Several large-scale companies are migrating Oracle databases to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora […]

Enterprises are migrating their Microsoft SQL Server workloads to AWS fully managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, which makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployment in the cloud. AWS provides guidance on migrating from an on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for […]

December 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. When you’re working as an application developer or database administrator, you often need to deal with SQL statements to explore your database for various reasons. You need to connect to the database to build or run the SQL code, generate reports, and diagnose application problem […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to encrypt stored data on your DB instances running Microsoft SQL Server. TDE automatically encrypts data before it’s written to storage, and decrypts data when the data is read from storage. TDE certificates expire depending on when the certificate is generated […]

Most database deployments have multiple database users who have varying degree of privileges on the data stored in the database, database structure, and administrative operations. In multi-user database environments, it’s important to grant and limit the privileges of different users based on their roles and needs. It’s also a best practice to limit the lifespan […]

Today, we announced the general availability of openCypher query language support with Amazon Neptune. Now you can use openCypher with Neptune to build or migrate graph applications to a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database. You can use the relationships in your data to expand your businesses by building knowledge graphs to link and […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced new features in AWS Backup for Amazon DynamoDB on-demand backups that can help you meet your compliance, business continuity, and cost-optimization needs. In this post, we describe these features and provide a step-by-step guide for using them to copy DynamoDB backups across AWS Regions and across accounts, configure your […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. In traditional databases, you have to spend more time performing administration, backup, patching, capacity planning, version upgrades, new server provisioning, and recovery tasks. You have to manually perform all these activities with an expert […]