Category: Management Tools

HAQM DynamoDB continuously sends metrics about its behavior to HAQM CloudWatch. Something I’ve heard customers ask for is how to get a count of successful requests of each operation type (for example, how many GetItem or DeleteItem calls were made) in order to better understand usage and costs. In this post, I show you how to retrieve this metric.

In this post, we show you how to import multiple Enhanced Monitoring metrics to CloudWatch and use the full capabilities of CloudWatch on those metrics.

Customers choose HAQM DynamoDB to improve their applications’ performance, scalability, and resiliency. DynamoDB’s serverless architecture simplifies operations by abstracting hardware, scaling, patches, and maintenances. Managing data access and security in DynamoDB is different than instance-based database solutions. DynamoDB uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to authenticate and authorize access to resources, whereas RBDMS solutions rely on firewalls rules, […]

One of the key benefits of HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) is that it creates an automated storage volume snapshot of the database instance, backing up the database host at the instance. HAQM RDS saves the automated backups of databases according to the specified backup retention period. The flexibility of creating manual snapshots helps […]

HAQM DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a highly efficient, scalable, and fully managed enterprise document database service designed to handle native JSON workloads. HAQM DocumentDB simplifies storing, querying, and indexing JSON data as a document database. The HAQM DocumentDB profiler feature is a valuable tool for monitoring the slowest operations on your cluster to help […]

Customers are actively exploring opportunities to optimize their expenses, aligning with the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. In this post, we discuss the following tools that you can use to analyze your spend and optimize your HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) costs.

WAX is a blockchain-based system designed for the unique demands of the gaming industry. It provides high transaction throughput and near-instant block finality. With WAX, game developers can decouple in-game digital assets from a single in-game world and let gamers use them in new contexts such as building walls of fame, creating personal online trophy […]

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute offering that helps you design event-driven architectures. It provides direct integration with multiple AWS services, including HAQM Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. In this post, we show you how to invoke Lambda functions from HAQM Relational Databases Service (HAQM RDS) for MySQL and HAQM RDS for MariaDB using HAQM CloudWatch and […]

HAQM Aurora is a high-performance, fully managed relational database service offered by AWS. It is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, providing exceptional scalability, availability, and durability for your data. HAQM Aurora Global Database allows you to replicate up to five different AWS Regions and provides robust disaster recovery capabilities. To ensure the resilience and recovery […]

HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for SQL Server makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the AWS cloud. It’s a fully managed, durable database built for enterprise workloads at scale and frees you up to focus on application development. HAQM RDS is integrated with AWS CloudFormation which supports […]