Category: HAQM CloudWatch

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.

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 […]

Customer databases are constantly growing. When you increase storage for a database in HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS), you can’t make further storage modifications for either 6 hours or until storage optimization has completed on the instance, whichever is longer. HAQM RDS storage autoscaling increases storage by 10 GiB, 10% of currently allocated storage, […]

Monitoring is an important aspect of database management. Database administrators, application teams, and architects want to proactively eradicate performance issues before they affect users or cause an outage. To achieve this, they need the right level of visibility into database health indicators. HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) provides monitoring tools, such as Enhanced Monitoring […]

HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) provides access to real-time metrics for your operating system, enabling you to monitor how different processes or threads use RDS resources. You can manage the metrics you want to monitor for each instance on the HAQM RDS console. HAQM CloudWatch is the native monitoring tool of AWS. It is […]