Category: Database

MySQL and PostgreSQL are popular relational database management systems that many organizations use to power web applications, dynamic websites, and embedded systems. For customers self-hosting MySQL and PostgreSQL with AWS, they can use their choice of tools to manage the operating system, database software, patches, data replication, backup, and restoration. As customers back up their […]

Customers use data events to build applications to trigger and communicate between decoupled services. An event is a change in state of, or an update to, data. For certain applications, such as batch order processing or content management, customers may need to implement application logic to handle duplicate and out-of-order events. For these use cases, […]

Canva is an online design tool that empowers users worldwide to design, edit, and publish anything they can dream up. Canva runs most of its production workloads on AWS, using several core services, including Amazon S3, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, and Amazon DynamoDB. Running on AWS has helped Canva move fast and keep up with […]

Organizations look for ways to leverage the compute power of the cloud to analyze their data and produce reports to help drive business decisions. They want to load their data sets into extract-transform-load (ETL) pipelines for data processing. Once the data is processed, business decision makers at these organizations rely on accurate report generation to […]

One of the most difficult challenges organizations face today is ensuring data availability and accessibility across their locations. Maintaining high availability and accessibility for SQL Server databases across different AWS Regions is a top data protection requirement for enterprises considering moving to the cloud. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers a quick way to fail […]

When dealing with applications or storage, it is often helpful to log previous policy configurations and have the ability to retrieve them. This can help you managed and troubleshoot configuration changes and comply with security regulations. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket policies are resource-based policies that you can use to grant access permissions […]

Cloud storage of documents has seen rapid growth over the years as more and more customers and businesses move away from traditional physical storage. As the size and number of documents continue to grow, customers want to manage their documents and retain them using long term, durable, cost-effective document archives. Businesses such as medical research […]

For most organizations, the availability of workloads is a key performance indicator affecting operations ensuring goods, services, and critical business transactions. Availability needs vary from workload to workload and are aligned with an organization’s business requirements and the criticality of their services. To learn more about how to architect in AWS to meet your availability […]

Customers can use event-driven architectures with decoupled tasks to automate and orchestrate custom scripts for backup jobs. With event-driven architectures, troubleshooting is key to understanding failures at the component levels in order to resolve issues that arise and keep the entire automated workflow running smoothly. In the first post in this two-part blog series, we […]

Exact Sciences operates the laboratories across the world that produce data that is critical to performing analysis and diagnostics to classify cancer modalities, treatments, and therapeutics. The laboratories generate large data sets from on-premises genomic sequencing devices that must be sent to the cloud for processing. Once in the cloud, we process the data to […]