Category: Database

Ten years ago, just a few months after I joined AWS, HAQM Redshift was launched. Over the years, many features have been added to improve performance and make it easier to use. HAQM Redshift now allows you to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes. More recently, HAQM Redshift […]

Way back in 2009 I wrote Introducing HAQM RDS – The HAQM Relational Database Service and told you that: RDS makes it easier for you to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. You get direct database access without worrying about infrastructure provisioning, software maintenance, or common database management tasks. Since […]

Since we launched AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) in 2016, customers have securely migrated more than 800,000 databases to AWS with minimal downtime. AWS DMS supports migration between 20+ database and analytics engines, such as Oracle to HAQM Aurora MySQL, MySQL to HAQM Relational Database (HAQM RDS) MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server to HAQM Aurora […]

With HAQM Redshift, you can analyze data in the cloud at any scale. HAQM Redshift offers native data protection capabilities to protect your data using automatic and manual snapshots. This works great by itself, but when you’re using other AWS services, you have to configure more than one tool to manage your data protection policies. […]

When updating databases, using a blue/green deployment technique is an appealing option for users to minimize risk and downtime. This method of making database updates requires two database environments—your current production environment, or blue environment, and a staging environment, or green environment. You must then keep these two environments in sync with each other so […]

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and the News Blog team is getting ready for AWS re:Invent! Many of us will be there next week and it would be great to meet […]

With three weeks to go until AWS re:Invent opens in Las Vegas, the AWS News Blog Team is hard at work creating blog posts to share the latest launches and previews with you. As usual, we have a strong mix of new services, new features, and a surprise or two. Last Week’s Launches Here are […]

March 2, 2023: Post updated because HAQM Neptune Serverless now scales down to 1 NCU to save costs. HAQM Neptune is a fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. With Neptune, you can use open and popular graph query languages to execute […]