Category: Storage

You may have stringent regulatory compliance obligations that require an effective multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) plan to mitigate a Region-wide disaster. AWS offers multiple methods to meet these needs, taking into consideration different factors such as recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), and costs. In this post, I focus on how to keep […]

January 2023: Please refer to Accelerate HAQM DynamoDB data access in AWS Glue jobs using the new AWS Glue DynamoDB Export connector  for more recent updates on using HAQM Glue to extract data from HAQM DynamoDB. HAQM DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a fully […]

HAQM Relational Database Service (RDS) helps you easily create, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. In January 2020, AWS announced the ability to export snapshots from HAQM RDS for MySQL, HAQM RDS for PostgreSQL, HAQM RDS for MariaDB, HAQM Aurora PostgreSQL, and HAQM Aurora MySQL into HAQM S3 in Apache Parquet format. […]

HAQM Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots offer the ability to back up the data on your EBS volumes to HAQM S3 by taking point-in-time snapshots. If you run your Oracle Databases on HAQM EC2 and use EBS volumes, you may be using EBS snapshots to meet your backup requirements. Prior to May 2019, you had […]

This is a customer post by Arup Ray, VP Data Technology at realtor.com, and Daniel Whitehead, AWS Solutions Architect. Arup Ray would like to acknowledge Anil Pillai, Software Development Engineer at HAQM, for his pioneering contributions to this project during his former tenure at realtor.com as Senior Principal Data Engineer. realtor.com , operated by Move, Inc., […]

HAQM RDS for Oracle gives you the full benefits of a managed service solution. You can use the lift-and-shift approach to migrate your legacy Oracle database to HAQM RDS for Oracle and, as a result, reduce the need to refactor and change existing application components. Data warehouse (DW) extraction is an integral part of most […]

Customers like Alkami and Acadian Asset Management use AWS Storage Gateway to back up their Microsoft SQL Server databases directly to HAQM S3, reducing their on-premises storage footprint and leveraging S3 for durable, scalable, and cost-effective storage. Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service providing on-premises applications with access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. […]

October 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS offers multiple options to host your databases serving OLTP workloads – host your own managed database on HAQM EC2 instances or use HAQM RDS managed by AWS. RDS manages high availability, automated backups, database upgrades, OS patches, security, and read replica. RDS also offers […]

October 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we discuss the elastic volumes feature for HAQM EBS and how it works with Oracle database storage layouts. We discuss elastic volumes with databases that use operating-system file systems and that use Logical Volume Managers (LVM) for database […]

August, 2024: This post has been reviewed and updated for accuracy. In part 1 of this blog series, we discuss the elastic volumes feature. We also discuss Oracle database storage layouts for simple databases that use a single HAQM EBS volume without LVM for database storage. In this post, part 2 of the series, we […]