AWS Database Blog

Organizations typically store business and customer data in databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Redshift, and often want to enrich this data by integrating with external services. One such enrichment is to add spatial attributes such as location coordinates for an address. With the introduction of Amazon Location Service, you now […]

This post describes how to configure Oracle Database Resident Connection Pool (DRCP) in an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle environment. You can use DRCP with application servers that can’t do middle-tier connection pooling. You can also use DRCP to manage hundreds or thousands of database connections from clients spread across multiple application […]

Ready to get started with Amazon ElastiCache? Introducing the new learning path Amazon ElastiCache: In-memory data store fundamentals, use cases, and examples. ElastiCache is a managed in-memory caching service compatible with Redis and Memcached, enabling you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale in-memory data stores in the cloud. In this new learning path, follow […]

May 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Monitoring databases is essential for any DBA, from dev-test databases to mission-critical databases. You want to capture system and user-defined events for monitoring and troubleshooting problems related to your database instance. MySQL records these events in error logs. In this post, we show you how […]

Scheduling jobs is an important part of every database environment. On a traditional on-premises database, you can schedule database maintenance jobs on the operating system where the database runs. When you migrate your databases to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora, you lose the ability to log in to the host and […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports managed disaster recovery (DR) using Amazon RDS cross-Region automated backups. This feature extends the existing Amazon RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to set up automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary Region. The […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. As organizations adopt and deploy home-connected smart devices, they face challenges utilizing device telemetry data in narrow and broad contexts. Examples of such home-connected devices are smart […]

In some cases, Database Administrators (DBAs) need to run post-database creation steps such as running SQL statements for creating users and database objects, resetting passwords, or standardizing Oracle database builds. This is mainly done during the database creation phase of new application deployment or during database refreshes that occur in non-production environments. AWS CloudFormation gives […]

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a Redis-compatible, fully managed caching service. ElastiCache for Redis helps you achieve extreme performance with microsecond latency at cloud scale with minimal management costs. Global Datastore is a feature of ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable, and secure Cross-Region Replication. With Global Datastore, you can write to […]

Many organizations go through auditing, and have to meet auditing compliance policies that require data to be encrypted over the network from application servers to the database server. Oracle Database provides two types of network security encryption methods: native network encryption (NNE) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle […]