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Managed disaster recovery and managed reader farm with HAQM RDS for Oracle using Oracle Active Data Guard

Many AWS users are taking advantage of the managed database offerings in the HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) portfolio to remove much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting from their day-to-day activities. With HAQM RDS for Oracle, users can significantly reduce the administrative overhead of managing and maintaining an Oracle database. HAQM RDS for Oracle […]

Aurora PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery solutions using HAQM Aurora Global Database

HAQM Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Aurora provides this by scaling storage across three Availability Zones in the same Region, and supports up to 15 read replica instances for scaling out read workloads and high availability within a […]

Disaster recovery on HAQM RDS for Oracle using AWS DMS

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate data from databases on-premises to HAQM Relational Database Service (RDS). You can also use it to migrate data between heterogeneous or homogeneous database engines, among other things. Businesses of all sizes use AWS to enable faster disaster recovery (DR) of their critical IT systems without having […]

Implementing cross-region disaster recovery using Oracle GoldenGate for HAQM RDS for Oracle

Many AWS users take advantage of the managed service offerings available in the AWS portfolio to do the heavy lifting in their day-to-day activities. HAQM RDS is one of these services and is ideal for your relational database deployments. With RDS, you can significantly reduce the administrative overhead of managing and maintaining a relational database. […]

Implementing a disaster recovery strategy with HAQM RDS

  This post was updated 2/1/2021 to fix a statement about how to share automated snapshots between AWS Accounts. HAQM RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database. Based on AWS high performance compute and storage, HAQM RDS supports the MySQL, SQL […]

Recover from a disaster with delayed replication in HAQM RDS for MySQL

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. HAQM RDS for MySQL now supports a delayed replication, which allows you to set a time period that a replica database lags behind a source database. In a standard MySQL replication configuration, there is minimal delay between the source and the replica. Now you have the option […]

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Cross-Region Automatic Disaster Recovery on HAQM RDS for Oracle Database Using DB Snapshots and AWS Lambda

Sameer Malik is a specialist solutions architect and Christian Williams is an enterprise solutions architect at HAQM Web Services. Many AWS users are taking advantage of the managed service offerings that are available in the AWS portfolio to remove much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting from their day-to-day activities. HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) […]