AWS Database Blog
Monitor real-time Amazon RDS OS metrics with flexible granularity using Enhanced Monitoring
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides access to real-time metrics for your operating system, enabling you to monitor how different processes or threads use RDS resources. You can manage the metrics you want to monitor for each instance on the Amazon RDS console. Amazon CloudWatch is the native monitoring tool of AWS. It is […]
Automate switchover of Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
End of support notice: On March 31, 2027, AWS will end support for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Existing customers can continue using the service until March 31, 2027. After March 31, 2027, you will no longer be able to access RDS Custom for Oracle resources including database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions. We […]
Join Amazon RDS for SQL Server to your self-managed Active Directory
In this post, we show you how to integrate your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server instances with your self-managed Active Directory (AD). Previously, you could only join your RDS for SQL Server instances to an AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory. You were able to connect your on-premises AD via a trust […]
Perform fuzzy full-text search and semantic search on Amazon DocumentDB using Amazon OpenSearch Service
In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with Amazon OpenSearch Service using AWS Lambda integration and run full-text search, fuzzy search, and synonym search on an artificially generated reviews dataset. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB API-compatible […]
Choose AWS Graviton and cloud storage for your Ethereum nodes infrastructure on AWS
The first question that comes up for everyone who wants to manage their own Ethereum nodes on AWS is how to select the right compute and storage. To answer this question, we ran a series of tests and observed how popular Ethereum Execution Layer (EL) clients go-ethereum with LevelDB (Geth) and Erigon work on Amazon […]
Secure data at rest on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle with TDE – Part 2: Multi-tenant environments
End of support notice: On March 31, 2027, AWS will end support for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Existing customers can continue using the service until March 31, 2027. After March 31, 2027, you will no longer be able to access RDS Custom for Oracle resources including database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions. We […]
Secure data at rest on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle with TDE – Part 1: non-CDB environments
End of support notice: On March 31, 2027, AWS will end support for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Existing customers can continue using the service until March 31, 2027. After March 31, 2027, you will no longer be able to access RDS Custom for Oracle resources including database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions. We […]
How Amazon Finance Technologies built an event-driven and scalable remittance service using Amazon DynamoDB
The Amazon Finance Technologies (FinTech) payment transmission team manages products for the Accounts Payable (AP) team, from invoices to the pay process. Their suite of services handles the disbursement process, from invoice generation to payment creation, to make sure that payment beneficiaries receive their payments. Amazon Business makes payments to a very diverse range of […]
Introducing – Aurora Global Database Failover
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora Global Database lets you span your relational database across multiple Regions. Global Database is an ideal choice for use cases when you want […]
Introducing Amazon RDS for MariaDB 10.11 for up to 40% higher transaction throughput
MariaDB is a popular open-source high performance database. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB supports multiple major engine versions including 10.4, 10.5, 10.6. Today, Amazon RDS has announced support for MariaDB major version 10.11, which is the latest long-term supported major version from the MariaDB community. When compared to previous versions, Amazon RDS for MariaDB […]









