AWS Database Blog

Tag: Storage

Best storage practices for running production workloads on hosted databases with HAQM RDS or HAQM EC2

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 […]

A serverless solution to monitor the storage of your HAQM DynamoDB tables

If you use HAQM DynamoDB as your application’s NoSQL database service, you might want to track how much storage your DynamoDB tables are using. DynamoDB publishes its service metrics to HAQM CloudWatch. CloudWatch helps you monitor and analyze those metrics, set alarms, and react automatically to changes in your AWS resources. Currently, DynamoDB sends many […]