Category: Database

Despite stiff competition from many other AWS services, HAQM Aurora is still the fastest-growing service in AWS history! Our customers love the speed, performance, and availability. They are making great use of the MySQL compatible side of Aurora today, and are looking forward to using the PostgreSQL compatible side in the future (read HAQM Aurora […]

Ray Zhu from the HAQM Kinesis team wrote this great post about how to set up a streaming data pipeline. He carefully shows you step by step how he set it all up and how you can do it too. -Ana   Consumer demand for better experiences is ever increasing today. Companies across different industry […]

Just two years ago (it seems like yesterday), I introduced you to HAQM Aurora in my post HAQM Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for HAQM RDS. In that post I told you how the RDS team took a fresh, unconstrained look at the relational database model and explained how they built a relational […]

HAQM Aurora already allows you to make your choice of five DB instance classes ranging from the db.r3.large (2 vCPUs and 15 GiB of RAM) up to the db.r3.8xlarge (32 vCPUs and 244 GiB of RAM). These instances support a very wide range of production-scale applications and use cases. Today we giving you a sixth […]

After a preview period that included participants from over 1,500 AWS customers ranging from startups to global enterprises, I am happy to be able to announce that HAQM QuickSight is now generally available! When I invited you to join the preview last year, I wrote: In the past, Business Intelligence required an incredible amount of […]

Our friends at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia sent along the guest post below to tell us about how AWS powers an important new genome editing technique. — Jeff   Recent developments in molecular engineering technology now enables the accurate editing of genomes. The new technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, can be […]

Many AWS services work just fine by themselves, but even better together! This important aspect of our model allows you to select a single service, learn about it, get some experience with it, and then extend your span to other related services over time. On the other hand, opportunities to make the services work together […]

Feature-by-feature, HAQM Aurora has become more powerful and easier to use. Over the past months we have given you the ability to create a cluster from a MySQL backup, create cross-region read replicas, share snapshots across accounts, exercise additional control over failover, and migrate from other in-cloud or on-premises databases to Aurora. Today, as an […]