Tag: Amazon Aurora

In this blog post, I’ll cover how to use an AWS CloudFormation template to automate the configuration that allows you to replicate data between a relational database like Amazon Aurora to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). I’ll walk you through a sample CloudFormation template so that you can customize for your needs. The AWS […]

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The future is not far away, and thanks to AWS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, our company has been able to build an infrastructure that scales to meet our customers’ demands. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) made our transition to Aurora PostgreSQL a seamless experience for both our customers and our software developers, while minimizing the risk. We used AWS DMS to fully migrate 700+ instances of Microsoft SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL. In addition, Amazon RDS Performance Insights now gives us excellent visibility into our database layer and allows us to respond quickly to any abnormalities.

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Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility is a popular choice for customers looking to consolidate database workloads. Aurora MySQL is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. It also delivers up to five times the throughput of the standard MySQL community […]

MySQL is the most popular open-source database in the world. However, many customers find that the undifferentiated heavy lifting of backups, high availability, and scaling of MySQL databases to be complex, time-consuming, or both. This is one of the leading reasons why customers move their existing MySQL footprint to Amazon RDS for MySQL. Amazon RDS […]

Replication, failover, resilience, disaster recovery, and backups—it can be challenging to achieve any or all of these in a traditional or non-cloud-based architecture. In addition, they sometimes require a considerable re-engineering effort. Due to the high implementation and infrastructure costs that are involved, some businesses are compelled to tier their applications so that only the […]

Amazon Aurora provides endpoints for the primary DB instance (the cluster endpoint) and for Read Replicas (the reader endpoint). Aurora updates the cluster endpoint automatically so that it always points to the primary instance. The reader endpoint load balances read operations across all available Read Replicas. Amazon Aurora Replicas typically have less than 100 ms […]

Security is a top priority at AWS, and the same is true for our customers. We spend a significant amount of resources protecting personal data and are constantly enhancing our capabilities to make data protection easier for our customers. All AWS services including the MySQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora comply with the European Union’s General […]

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