Category: Amazon Aurora

In this post, we show how a large financial AWS customer achieved sub-minute failover between Availability Zones and single-digit minutes between AWS Regions. The customer partnered with AWS to engineer a solution to provide high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for their wealth management customer portal. The goals of the design were to minimize […]

In this post, we provide instructions to replicate ongoing changes using the change tracking feature available in SQL Server Web Edition (source) with the linked server feature available in the Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL (target).

In this post, we share the steps to connect to an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition instance using a federated user with IAM Identity Center and IAM database authentication.To enhance security and streamline access, you can connect to your RDS or Aurora instances using federated users with AWS IAM Identity Center and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) database authentication. This integration allows you to manage database access through IAM Identity Center, providing secure, centralized authentication.

In this post, we demonstrate how you can migrate your instances within an Aurora cluster from a public subnet to a private subnet while keeping downtime to an absolute minimum.

Presence is a leading provider of live therapy and evaluation services for PreK-12 schools throughout the United States. Amazon RDS for MySQL has been a core part of Presence’s data architecture for many years. Presence used RDS read replicas, with replication filtering, to migrate applications from their centralized RDS for MySQL DB instance to dedicated DB instances. This approach allowed them to migrate each service, on its own schedule, with little downtime. In this post, we provide a practical example for migrating using the same method.

In this post, we discuss more PostgreSQL key concepts, including simple query protocol, explain plans, how to read explain plans, and tools to visualize these plans in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition.

Customers migrating Oracle databases to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL might encounter the challenge of scheduling jobs that require precise sub-minute scheduling to avoid workflow disruptions and maintain business operations. In this post, we demonstrate how you can use Trusted Language Extensions (TLEs) for PostgreSQL to install and use pg_dbms_job on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. pg_dbms_jobs allows you to manage scheduled sub-minute jobs.

Some customers use Oracle UTL_HTTP package to write PL/SQL programs that communicate with web (HTTP) servers and invoke third-party APIs. When migrating to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, these customers need to perform a custom conversion of their SQL code since PostgreSQL does not offer a similar […]

In this post, we discuss the steps to perform a blue/green deployment switchover and how to set up and perform a rollback strategy post switchover for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition.

Prowler for AWS provides hundreds of security configuration checks across services such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElasticCache, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, and many more. In this post, we focus on these new and expanded Amazon RDS security checks, their integration with AWS Security Hub, and the benefits they offer AWS users.