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Tag: AWS CloudFormation
Building and querying the AWS COVID-19 knowledge graph
This blog post details how to recreate the AWS COVID-19 knowledge graph (CKG) using AWS CloudFormation and Amazon Neptune, and query the graph using Jupyter notebooks hosted on Amazon SageMaker in your AWS account. The CKG aids in the exploration and analysis of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), hosted in the AWS COVID-19 data […]
Building an AWS CloudFormation custom resource to manage Amazon RDS point-in-time recovery
Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. It frees you to focus on your business logic and application features, leaving the heavy lifting to AWS. […]
How to migrate from Oracle to Amazon Aurora MySQL using AWS CloudFormation (Part 1)
Database migrations are challenging, especially for heterogeneous database migrations such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Oracle to Amazon Aurora MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL. The schema structure, data types, and database code of source databases can be quite different from those of the target databases, requiring a schema and code transformation step before the […]
How to use AWS CloudFormation to configure auto scaling for Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes
A best practice for the deployment of AWS resources is to use a configuration system that treats your infrastructure as code. Infrastructure as code is a key enabler of DevOps practices, which bring developers and operations together to collaborate on automating application delivery at scale. By modeling your entire infrastructure as code in AWS CloudFormation […]
Migrate Delimited Files from Amazon S3 to an Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL Table Using AWS Database Migration Service and AWS CloudFormation
July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Recently, AWS Database Migration Services (AWS DMS) added support for using Amazon S3 as a source for your database migration. This new support means that you can now load data in comma-separated value (CSV) format from S3 into any supported target, whether or not the target has […]