AWS Database Blog

Category: Foundational (100)

New features in AWS DMS 3.5.0

We are excited to announce the availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication engine version 3.5.0. This version provides improvements to task logging, new data type support, and AWS service integrations that were requested by many of our customers. For the entire list of improvements, refer to AWS Database Migration Service 3.5.0 Beta […]

The World is a graph: How Wiz reimagines cloud security using a graph in HAQM Neptune

This is a guest post by Ami Luttwak, CTO at Wiz, co-authored with Brad Bebee, General Manager of HAQM Neptune. Graphs are changing the way we parse and understand the world. Social graphs have had a huge impact on how we analyze social interactions across many industries. Now, in security, we can build totally new […]

AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessments can help you to optimize HAQM RDS migration and usage costs

Oracle and Microsoft customers have been deploying their database workloads to HAQM Web Services in record numbers. The AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) has helped many of these customers save on third party licensing costs and run their database resources efficiently on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) and VMware Cloud on AWS […]

Key considerations for migration estimation from HAQM Database Migration Accelerator

Migrating certain workloads (application and database) to new cloud platforms can be technically challenging. AWS launched HAQM Database Migration Accelerator (HAQM DMA) to accelerate and simplify your journey to AWS databases and analytics services. HAQM DMA has assisted thousands of customers globally to migrate their workloads. In this post, we share HAQM DMA’s approach and […]

Choose shard keys to optimize HAQM DocumentDB Elastic Clusters

As applications grow, data grows as well, so it’s imperative for a modern cloud-based application to have a database that can automatically scale. HAQM DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed, native JSON database built with a flexible schema for enterprise applications that decouples storage and compute, improving scalability and reducing time-consuming administrative tasks. […]

Achieve up to 17x lower replication lag with the new write-through cache for Aurora PostgreSQL

HAQM Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition recently added the logical replication write-through cache. The logical replication write-through cache helps improve performance by reducing the amount of Aurora storage I/O that takes place during logical decoding. When you use the write-through cache, the logical decoder looks in the cache first for data to satisfy queries; if the data is […]

HAQM Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) re:Invent 2022 recap

The HAQM Keyspaces team had a great time meeting with many of you at AWS re:Invent 2022. It was particularly exciting to experience re:Invent at its peak in-person attendance. The team enjoyed listening to your feedback and use cases, and understanding what you want us to build next. We work backwards from these conversations and feedback […]

AWS SCT now supports IBM DB2 for z/OS as a source

You can now use AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to streamline a migration project from Db2 for z/OS (v12) to HAQM Relation Database Services (HAQM RDS). The list of supported targets for this source in AWS SCT is: HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for MySQL HAQM Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition HAQM Relational Database Service […]

Overview of building resilient applications with HAQM DynamoDB global tables

AWS Senior Principal Solutions Architect Randy DeFauw has written a four-part series about how to use HAQM DynamoDB global tables as part of your strategy to build resilient, multi-Region applications that have the lowest possible recovery time objective and recovery point objective. This post summarizes each post in the series and provides a single link […]