Category: Database

We want to make it as easy as possible for you to secure your AWS environment. Some of our more recent announcements in this area include encrypted EBS boot volumes, encryption at rest for HAQM Aurora, and support for AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) across several different services. Today we are giving you some […]

When you pull the curtain back on an AWS-powered application, you’ll find that a lot is happening behind the scenes. EC2 instances are launched and terminated by Auto Scaling policies in response to changes in system load, HAQM DynamoDB tables, HAQM SNS topics and HAQM SQS queues are created and deleted, and attributes of existing […]

HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) makes it easy for you to set up, run, scale, and maintain a relational database. As is often the case with the high-level AWS model, we take care of all of the details in order to give you the time to focus on your application and your business. Enhanced […]

Back when I was young, InfoWorld was a tabloid-sized journal that chronicled the growth of the PC industry. Every week I would await the newest issue and read it cover to cover, eager to learn all about the latest and greatest hardware and software. I always enjoyed and appreciated the reviews — they were unfailingly […]

We launched HAQM Aurora a little over a year ago (see my post, HAQM Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for HAQM RDS, to learn more). Customer adoption of HAQM Aurora has been strong and it is now the fastest-growing AWS service! We recently made HAQM Aurora available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region […]

Today I would like to tell you about a new cross-account snapshot sharing feature for HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS). You can share the snapshots with specific AWS accounts or you can make them public. Cross-Account Snapshot Sharing I often create snapshot backups as part of my RDS demos: The snapshots are easy to […]

I love to demo HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) to live audiences! They always appreciate the fact that I can launch a MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or HAQM Aurora database instance with a couple of clicks. Today I would like to bring you up to date on a bunch of improvements that we […]

The HAQM Redshift team is on a tear. They are listening to customer feedback and rolling out new features all the time! Below you will find an announcement of another powerful and highly anticipated new feature. — Jeff; HAQM Redshift makes it easy to launch a petabyte-scale data warehouse. For less than $1,000/Terabyte/year, you can […]