Category: Database

HAQM Redshift lets you deploy a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse with just a couple of clicks. Once you create your cluster, you can use it to analyze your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Custom applications that use JDBC or ODBC connections will also work, as will those which use standard PostgreSQL […]

I love to demo HAQM RDS. It is really cool to be able to launch a relational database instance in minutes, and to show my audiences how it manages scaling, backups, restores, patches, and availability so that they can focus on their application. After my demo, I invariably get questions about data migration. The audiences […]

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I am a huge fan of the HAQM Relational Database Service (RDS). Over the course of the last couple of years, I have seen that my audiences really appreciate the way that RDS obviates a number of tedious yet mission-critical tasks that are […]

If you use HAQM RDS, you probably understand the ease with which you can create read replicas to increase the scalability and performance of your database-backed applications. Today we are extending this feature to decrease replica creation time, increase snapshot performance, and give you even more read throughput. Let’s take a closer look… Parallel Replica […]

With AWS being put to use in an ever-widening set of use cases across organizations of all shapes and sizes, the need for additional control over the permissions granted to users and to applications has come through loud and clear.  This need for control becomes especially pronounced at the enterprise level. You don’t want the […]

You can now use tags to organize your HAQM RDS resources. Also, as I have noted in my companion blog post, you can reference these tags in IAM policies in order to manage access to RDS resources and to control the actions that can be applied to the resources. You can even use the tags […]

You have a plethora of options when you want to run a relational or NoSQL databases on AWS. On the relational side, you can use the Relational Database Service (RDS) to run a MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server database. RDS will take care of the scaling, backup, maintenance, patching, and failover for you so that […]

I am happy to announce that the HAQM Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports version 5.6 of MySQL. If you are an existing RDS customer, you know that HAQM RDS for MySQL delivers several important benefits to MySQL customers including ease of deployment, high availability with automatic failure detection and failover, read replicas, push button […]