AWS Database Blog
Advanced observability and troubleshooting with Amazon RDS event monitoring pipelines
AWS provides a wide range of monitoring solutions for your Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora instances, such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights, and AWS CloudTrail. Amazon RDS event monitoring pipelines make troubleshooting operational events like reboots, errors, and failovers more efficient. In this post, we present a solution to get a head start on troubleshooting by sending an email after a reboot or failover with the last 10 minutes of important CloudWatch metrics, top queries, and related API calls performed on the instance.
Building a 10-billion wallet crypto-intelligence platform: Elliptic’s journey with Amazon DynamoDB
In this post, we explore how Elliptic uses Amazon DynamoDB to build a crypto-intelligence platform that scales to over 10 billion wallets globally and supports real-time risk detection across the fast-evolving digital asset ecosystem. We discuss the data model design, indexing strategies, and operational setup that Elliptic uses to power real-time risk analysis and complex investigations at scale.
Monitor Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB performance using the Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboard
The Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboard adds the ability to perform trend analysis, create actionable insights, set up alerts, and automate reporting. You can configure the Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboard to suit your business needs and build a robust and optimized time series workflow. In this post we walk you through how to deploy the Timestream for InfluxDB Metrics dashboard to start monitoring the performance of your fleet of Timestream for InfluxDB databases.
Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application
In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new services yet to be built. Let’s take a closer look at the anatomy of an agentic AI application and what would factor into such decisions.
Build a dynamic workflow orchestration engine with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda
In this post, I show you how to build a serverless workflow orchestration engine that uses Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda. The complete implementation is available in a GitHub repository, which includes two fully functional examples that you can deploy and run immediately to see the orchestration engine in action.
Set up proactive monitoring for Amazon RDS for SQL Server with real-time Slack notifications
In this post, we demonstrate how to build an efficient, serverless monitoring system for Amazon RDS for SQL Server using AWS native services and Slack integration.
How Smartsheet enhances recommendations using Amazon Neptune and Knowledge Graphs
Smartsheet is a leading SaaS-based collaborative work management platform trusted by enterprises worldwide to manage projects, automate workflows, and drive collaboration at scale. In this post, we describe the Smartsheet Knowledge Graph, built in partnership between Smartsheet and AWS. The Smartsheet Knowledge Graph is a unified data model connecting people, content, and work in Smartsheet, representing how users interact with assets, content, and their collaborators.
Identifying and resolving performance issues caused by TOAST OID contention in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
In this post, we explore the challenges of OID exhaustion in PostgreSQL, focusing on its impact on TOAST tables and how it leads to performance issues. We will cover how to identify the problem by reviewing wait events, session activity, and table usage. Additionally, we discuss practical solutions, from cleaning up data to more advanced strategies such as partitioning.
Implement event-driven architectures with Amazon DynamoDB – Part 3
In this three-part series, we explore approaches to implement enhanced event-driven patterns for DynamoDB-backed applications. Throughout this series, we’ve examined various strategies for managing data within DynamoDB. This post shifts the focus to an event-driven pattern that reliably schedules future downstream actions using EventBridge Scheduler.
Implement event-driven architectures with Amazon DynamoDB – Part 2
In this three-part series, we explore approaches to implement enhanced event-driven patterns for DynamoDB-backed applications. In this post (Part 2), we explore another method which uses global secondary indexes (GSIs) to handle fine-grained Time to Live (TTL) requirements.