Author: Vlad Vlasceanu

Customers are increasingly choosing to encrypt their AWS Cloud databases and data stores by default. This trend is only gaining speed with the evolving meaning of sensitive data (personally identifiable information [PII], etc.) within various regulatory frameworks. Customers also ask AWS for guidance on how to best adopt the latest database encryption options, while maintaining […]

HAQM Aurora with MySQL compatibility is a popular choice for customers looking to consolidate database workloads. Aurora MySQL is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. It also delivers up to five times the throughput of the standard MySQL community […]

Security is a top priority at AWS, and the same is true for our customers. We spend a significant amount of resources protecting personal data and are constantly enhancing our capabilities to make data protection easier for our customers. All AWS services including the MySQL-compatible edition of HAQM Aurora comply with the European Union’s General […]

NEW! HAQM Aurora with MySQL compatibility now supports publishing of all logs to CloudWatch Logs using the process described below. HAQM RDS has long offered customers the ability to view and download logs associated with their DB instances for troubleshooting purposes. Now, with HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for MySQL and HAQM RDS for […]

Vlad Vlasceanu is a solutions architect at HAQM Web Services. Last year, we launched support for Windows Authentication in HAQM RDS for SQL Server. This feature has been quite popular with customers. It lets you deploy Microsoft SQL Server-based workloads with HAQM RDS using the same centralized user management patterns that you use in your […]