AWS Database Blog

Modifying the schema of a SQL database can be time-consuming, resource-intensive, and error-prone. It can also require long periods of downtime that negatively affects the end-user experience. In this post, I walk you through performing schema changes using Instant DDL and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Blue/Green Deployments for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition with […]

Customers are migrating to Amazon Redshift to modernize their data warehouse solution and help save on their licensing, support, operations, and maintenance costs. To migrate data from an on-premises data warehouse to Amazon Redshift, you can use services such as AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT), Amazon Simple Storage […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database (DB) environment. It helps automate the setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud while granting access to the database and underlying operating […]

Many customers use AWS Backup to automatically create Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS and Aurora) database snapshots. RDS database snapshots are a convenient way to protect your data and make it easy to recover in the event of an accident or disaster. If you’re using RDS Snapshots for long-term archival to meet compliance requirements […]

Migrating workloads from PostgreSQL to a data warehouse like Amazon Redshift can pose challenges during the change data capture (CDC) phase when dealing with partitioned tables. In this post, we illustrate how we can migrate data from PostgreSQL partitioned tables to a single table on the target database using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). […]

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy service. You don’t need to provision or manage any additional infrastructure to start using RDS Proxy. In addition to this, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) completely manages maintenance activities for RDS Proxy such as upgrades and patching, which are carried out gradually in […]

We are excited to announce the availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.5.0. This version provides improvements to task logging, new data type support, and AWS service integrations that were requested by many of our customers. For the entire list of improvements, refer to AWS Database Migration Service 3.5.0 Beta […]

In this post, we discuss how DevOcean uses Amazon Neptune to power its cloud application vulnerability remediation platform. The DevOcean platform provides a unified dashboard to manage security events across all the layers of a customer’s cloud applications. With DevOcean, users can prioritize risk, reduce alert fatigue, and manage remediation faster with appropriate owners within […]

Customers within a variety of industries (healthcare and life sciences, financial services, and retail, among others) require a stronger security posture. Particularly, if the databases being hosted contain sensitive data such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers (for example, US Social Security numbers), providing a solution that allows you to encrypt this data […]

Applications in the past were monolithic and rigid, and their components were closely coupled with each other, making them difficult to develop, maintain, and adapt to changing business requirements. Today’s businesses need to deliver changes rapidly, frequently and reliably. To overcome these issues, organizations are moving from development of monolithic applications to microservices architectures for […]