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Building data lakes and implementing data retention policies with HAQM RDS snapshot export to HAQM S3

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. […]

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 […]