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Improving Oracle backup and recovery performance with HAQM EBS multi-volume crash-consistent snapshots

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 […]

Setting up for cross-account native backup and restore in HAQM RDS for Microsoft SQL Server

Reviewed and updated on June 2022. HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) supports native backup and restore for Microsoft SQL Server databases. If you have multiple AWS accounts, you can perform native backup and restore across these accounts, provided that your HAQM RDS instance and the HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) bucket are in […]

ElastiCache for Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing

Clusters provide a lot of capabilities in HAQM ElastiCache for Redis. Using autosharding to distribute data across the shards of a cluster enables high performance (over 4.5m writes/sec and 20m reads/sec, with each operation typically under 500µs) and high capacity (up to 3.5TiB of data) with high reliability and with recovery of failed nodes usually […]