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Customers running their business-critical workloads on SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE) databases can modernize them by migrating to HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for SQL Server and be able to keep Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as their preferred database programming language and Tabular Data Stream (TDS) as their communication protocol, which accelerates the migration and […]

Automating the management of the compute resources associated with your HAQM Neptune database cluster can save you time and money. The most significant cost when running Neptune for your graph workloads are the compute resources in the database cluster. If you’re also using associated resources such as HAQM SageMaker notebook instances, which you can use […]

There are different strategies you can leverage to migrate an on-premises SQL Server workload to HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) Custom for SQL Server. All of them come with pros and cons. The following are some high-level migration challenges that you may encounter during your analysis and implementation phase: Lift and shift (backup and […]

Database administrators and developers traditionally schedule scripts to run against databases using the system cron on the host where the database is running or using database schedulers, resulting in a tight coupling with the batch scripts and the database. Many Oracle database applications use files stored in a shared file system volume that is mounted […]

This is a guest post by Hemalatha Katari, Solution Architect at Accenture, in partnership with AWS Partner Solutions Architect Rohit Satyanarayana. In this post, we discuss how to use AWS Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate your database while maintaining strict network segregation and network security requirements. We recently used this solution with a […]

This blog post was reviewed and updated May 2022. Organizations are moving their self-managed Oracle databases to AWS managed database services to modernize their applications and gain access to cloud services. With HAQM RDS Custom, you now have the privileges needed to perform a physical migration of your Oracle database into HAQM Relational Database Service […]

This blog post was last reviewed or updated April, 2022 to include unplanned failover feature. Important note: This solution relies on Route 53 control plane, which is only available in N.Virginia region (us-east-1). For an unplanned failover, if your primary Region is us-east-1 we don’t advise using this solution as it takes a dependency on the […]

December, 2022: HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) now supports HAQM RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your HAQM Aurora and HAQM RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. Learn […]

As database security becomes more and more essential to the success of a business, managing user access to databases effectively has always been a challenge to database administrators (DBAs) and security officers. Traditional database authentication is based on a username-password mechanism. This method unfortunately requires effort from both DBAs and users to maintain the credentials; […]

This blog post was last reviewed or updated January, 2023. In the previous blog post of this series, I discuss MySQL parameters used to optimize replication in HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for MySQL and best practices related to them. In today’s post, I discuss the most important and commonly used MySQL parameters for […]