Category: Database

In-memory data stores are widely used for application scalability, and developers have long appreciated their benefits for storing frequently accessed data, whether volatile or persistent. Systems like Redis help decouple databases and backends from incoming traffic, shedding most of the traffic that would had otherwise reached them, and reducing application latency for users. Obviously, managing […]

Feb 5th, 2020: We’ve made an edit to this post. Previously, we had communicated that between February 5 and March 5, 2020, RDS would automatically stage the new certificates on RDS database instances without a restart. Based on customer feedback and to give customers as much time as possible to complete updates, RDS will neither […]

Managing databases at scale is never easy. One of the options to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of structured data, including key-value and tabular formats, is Apache Cassandra. With Cassandra, you can use the expressive Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to build applications quickly. However, managing large Cassandra clusters can be difficult and takes a lot of […]

A data warehouse is a database optimized to analyze relational data coming from transactional systems and line of business applications. HAQM Redshift is a fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze data using standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools. To get information from unstructured data that would […]

March 23, 2020: Post updated to clarify networking, IAM permissions, and database configurations required to use machine learning from Aurora databases. A new notebook using SageMaker Autopilot gives a complete example, from the set up of the model to the creation of the SQL function using the endpoint. The integrations described in this post are now available for MySQL and […]

[This post has been updated on March 17th 2020. You can now update update existing global tables to the new replication model] Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers are using HAQM DynamoDB. In 2017, we launched DynamoDB global tables, a fully managed solution to deploy multi-region, multi-master DynamoDB tables without having to build and maintain […]

Last year I told you that we were working to give you HAQM RDS on VMware, with the goal of bringing many of the benefits of HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) to your on-premises virtualized environments. These benefits include the ability to provision new on-premises databases in minutes, make backups, and restore to a […]

Over my 17 years at HAQM, I have seen that my colleagues on the engineering team are never content to leave good-enough alone. They routinely re-evaluate every internal system to make sure that it is as scalable, efficient, performant, and secure as possible. When they find an avenue for improvement, they will use what they […]