AWS Database Blog

This post is a continuation of our series on scaling your relational database for software as a service (SaaS). SaaS providers commonly use relational databases, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora, in their solutions. In Part 1, we looked at some common ways to scale or optimize your relational database […]

One of the challenges that software as a service (SaaS) providers face as their business grows is how to maintain their tenants’ experience. This includes ensuring acceptable performance and response times as the tenant base grows. Relational databases, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora, are commonly used by SaaS providers. […]

You can use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for many use cases, such as migrating from legacy or on-premises databases to managed cloud services, replicating ongoing data changes from online transaction processing (OLTP) databases such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to an online analytical processing (OLAP) data warehouse such as Amazon Redshift, […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native integrations with other AWS services. You can enhance […]

In the evolving landscape of blockchain technology, understanding the intricacies of node deployment on AWS is paramount in order to be able to interact with the blockchain. In this post, we provide a comprehensive overview of the role nodes serve in blockchain networks, cover the spectrum of available node types, discuss use cases, and present […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is a fully managed commercial database that makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale Oracle database deployments in the AWS Cloud. Amazon RDS automation manages time-consuming, repetitive administration tasks like provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and compute scaling, allowing you to focus on tasks and […]

When planning and implementing database migrations to the AWS, one of the phases is data migration, which may involve the usage of a data migration and replication tool such as AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). AWS DMS is a cloud service that enables the migration of relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and other […]

In-Region read replicas and cross-Region read replicas are two popular read-scale availability options available in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. Amazon RDS customers use read replicas to offload their analytical or read-intended transactional workloads from a primary database instance. Previously, read replicas required the primary database instance to be in a […]

A joint letter to graph customers, the graph curious, and the Cypher community: Last week, the database world reached a significant milestone. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published GQL, a new database language standard designed for property graphs. GQL, which stands for Graph Query Language, is the first new ISO database language since the […]

PostgreSQL has the ability to authenticate user names and passwords using native credentials, though it lacks the ability to enforce specific password complexity and other advanced authentication policies without external identity services like LDAP or Kerberos. Trusted Language Extensions (TLE) for PostgreSQL (pg_tle), an open-source development kit used to build and package extensions, lets you […]