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In this post, we present a practical approach to one of the most significant challenges organizations face when adopting HAQM RDS Custom for SQL Server: migrating large datasets from SQL Server on HAQM EC2 to HAQM RDS Custom for SQL Server efficiently and cost-effectively. By using SQL Server’s native detach and attach method combined with EBS snapshots, you can migrate your databases without requiring HAQM S3 or AWS DMS.

When you decide to upgrade your PostgreSQL database which is configured as source or target for an ongoing AWS DMS task, it’s important to factor this into your upgrade planning. In this post, we discuss the best practices to handle the AWS DMS tasks during PostgreSQL upgrades to minor or major versions.

In this post, we discuss how the HAQM Finance Automation team used AWS purpose built databases, such as HAQM DynamoDB, HAQM OpenSearch Service, and HAQM Neptune together coupled with serverless compute like AWS Lambda to build an Operational Data Store (ODS) to store financial transactional data and support FinOps applications with millisecond latency. This data is the key enabler for FinOps business.

In this post, we discuss how Heroku migrated their multi-tenant PostgreSQL database fleet from self-managed PostgreSQL on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) to HAQM Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Heroku completed this migration with no customer impact, increasing platform reliability while simultaneously reducing operational burden. We dive into Heroku and their previous self-managed architecture, the new architecture, how the migration of hundreds of thousands of databases was performed, and the enhancements to the customer experience since its completion.

In this post, we demonstrate how to use generative AI and HAQM Bedrock to transform natural language questions into graph queries to run against a knowledge graph. We explore the generation of queries written in the SPARQL query language, a well-known language for querying a graph whose data is represented as Resource Description Framework (RDF).

HAQM RDS for Oracle supports specific versions of the OEM Agent. HAQM recently released OEM Management Agent version 13.5.0.0.v2 for HAQM RDS for Oracle databases. OEM Agent version 13.5.0.0.v2 requires Oracle Management Server (OMS) version 13.5.0.23 at the minimum. In this post we explore critical scenarios affecting OEM Agents on HAQM RDS for Oracle Database instances and outline essential considerations for users.

In this post, we explore the pgstattuple extension in depth; what insights it offers, how to use it to diagnose issues in HAQM Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for PostgreSQL, and best practices for harnessing its capabilities.

Monitoring databases is essential in large IT environments to prevent potential issues from becoming major problems that can result in data loss or downtime. Having custom dashboards and alarm-based monitoring for the database can help in analyzing historical metrics patterns and improve database availability by alerting users of any abnormal threshold breaches. In this post, we show you how to set up monitoring for your Oracle database using StatsD.

In this post, we highlight often overlooked architectural designs and the inherent features of Aurora that optimize costs when deploying an open source database. The following sections examine various use cases, contrasting typical self-managed database configurations and their associated costs with the equivalent solution on Aurora, highlighting potential cost savings and operational efficiencies.

In this post, we show you a worked example of taking an existing application that works on PostgreSQL databases and adapting it to work with an Aurora DSQL database. In addition to adapting for the previously mentioned aspects, we also address some data type incompatibilities and work around some limits that currently exist in Aurora DSQL.