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Our customers have seen many cases where network bandwidth between the MySQL client and database becomes the source of bottleneck. This leads to increase in the query latencies causing performance impact. This is especially seen for workloads which have high network bandwidth requirement. MySQL and MariaDB solve this problem by allowing you to compress traffic […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying OS and DB environment. You may need to modify the default configuration of an RDS Custom for Oracle instance to meet various requirements, such as enable database features or options, change […]

For a relational database management system (RDBMS), consistency is one of the crucial properties of a transaction – it defines the rules for maintaining data points in a correct state after a transaction. The consistency of the data ensures that transactions only make changes to tables in predefined, predictable ways thereby preventing unintended consequences for […]

In this post, we explain how to utilize AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for incremental data loads without running the AWS DMS instance continuously. We demonstrate how to store the checkpoint data between each run, so that the AWS DMS task can utilize the checkpoint information and extract data from the source databases in […]

We recently wrapped up another successful edition of re:Invent, AWS’s flagship cloud event of the year, offering cloud computing enthusiasts an opportunity to hear the latest in cloud technology, as well as get hands-on training from the experts, and hear directly from leaders across the AWS organization. At this year’s re:Invent, AWS announced several exciting […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying Operating System (OS) and database environment. With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you can customize the database server host and OS and apply special patches or change database software settings to […]

You can now use AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to streamline a migration project from Db2 for z/OS (v12) to Amazon Relation Database Services (Amazon RDS). The list of supported targets for this source in AWS SCT is: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition Amazon Relational Database Service […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server supports column-level data encryption. Column-level encryption provides encryption at a more granular level of data that can be applied on all or selected columns. With column-level encryption, you can define different encryption keys for each different column. You can use encryption in SQL Server for connections, […]

AWS has been named a Leader for the eighth consecutive year in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, and this year we have been positioned highest for execution and furthest for vision. As we reflect on our recent re:Invent 2022 conference, we look forward to sharing this report which evaluates the […]

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) is a fully managed ledger database that maintains a complete, immutable record of every change committed to the database. As transactions are committed to the database, they are appended to a transaction log called a journal and are cryptographically hash-chained to the previous transaction. Once committed, the record of […]