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Category: AWS Backup

Enable HAQM RDS for Oracle immutable tables for protected workloads

Immutable tables are a feature of Oracle Enterprise Edition, or Oracle Standard Edition database 19c and higher. In this post, we guide you through the features of immutable tables when creating, storing, and managing data on HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for Oracle.

Automate cross-account backup of HAQM RDS for Oracle including database parameter groups, option groups and security groups

In this post, we showcase AWS Backup and CloudFormation support feature of AWS Backup to automate the backup of HAQM RDS for Oracle, including customized database resources such as database parameter group, option group, and security group across AWS accounts.

AWS tools to optimize your HAQM RDS costs

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.

Demystifying AWS Backup for HAQM RDS for Oracle

Customers prefer to host their relational database workloads in a managed service such as HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) because of the benefits offered by managed services. Although HAQM RDS offers automatic backups as a native feature, your data retention policies may require longer retention periods than the retention policy supported by HAQM RDS. […]

HAQM RDS: Snapshot, restore, and recovery demystified

HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) is a managed relational database service offering. The managed service automation of HAQM Web Services (AWS) takes care of installation, storage provisioning, storage management, OS and database patching, and snapshot and restore of database instances. Offloading the undifferentiated heavy lifting of database infrastructure management to AWS helps you focus […]

Reduce data archiving costs for compliance by automating HAQM RDS snapshot exports to HAQM S3

Many customers use AWS Backup to automatically create HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS and Aurora) database snapshots. RDS database snapshots are a convenient way to protect your data and make it easy to recover in the event of an accident or disaster. If you’re using RDS Snapshots for long-term archival to meet compliance requirements […]

Set up scheduled backups for HAQM DynamoDB using AWS Backup – Part 2

HAQM DynamoDB offers two types of backups: point-in-time recovery (PITR) and on-demand backups. PITR is used to recover your table to any point in time in a rolling 35 day window, which is used to help customers mitigate accidental deletes or writes to their tables from bad code, malicious access, or user error. On demand […]

Enhanced AWS Backup features for HAQM DynamoDB

HAQM Web Services (AWS) recently announced new features in AWS Backup for HAQM DynamoDB on-demand backups that can help you meet your compliance, business continuity, and cost-optimization needs. In this post, we describe these features and provide a step-by-step guide for using them to copy DynamoDB backups across AWS Regions and across accounts, configure your […]

Automate cross-account backups of HAQM RDS and HAQM Aurora databases with AWS Backup

Many organizations around the world, such as government agencies, financial institutions, and non-profits, are looking for ways to protect their valuable data from ransomware attacks and natural disasters. In addition, many businesses are required to maintain their data long term to meet regulatory compliance and business policies. In the cloud, a strategy we see customers […]

Set up scheduled backups for HAQM DynamoDB using AWS Backup

With customers scaling up their AWS workloads across hundreds, if not thousands of AWS resources, customers have expressed the need to centrally manage and monitor their backups. They want to have a standardized way to manage their backups at scale. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services. AWS Backup […]