AWS Database Blog

You can use blockchain for use cases where multiple parties need to transact and share data in a decentralized manner without a centralized, trusted authority. In this blog post, we discuss using blockchain to deploy smart contracts. Blockchain networks can be public, where anyone can join, or permissioned, where the network is limited to a […]

In the previous blog post of this series, I discuss MySQL parameters used to tune and optimize Amazon RDS for MySQL performance and best practices related to them. In today’s post, I discuss the most important MySQL parameters used for replication configuration and optimizing replication in an RDS MySQL environment. Parameters related to both single […]

This blog post demonstrates how to use the MariaDB JDBC driver, known as MariaDB Connector/J, to connect to an Amazon Aurora cluster. In this post, we use the automatic failover capability of the connector to switch rapidly and seamlessly between master and replica in a failover situation. You can download MariaDB Connector/J from the MariaDB […]

This blog post talks about a tool that automates creation of AWS CloudFormation templates for AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) tasks. If you are looking for how to create CloudFormation templates for your DMS tasks and don’t have knowledge of CloudFormation, read on. Many times during database migration activities where AWS DMS is involved, […]

With Amazon RDS for MySQL, you can deploy scalable MySQL servers in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity. Amazon RDS frees you up to focus on application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks including backups, software patching, monitoring, scaling, and replication. Most Amazon RDS for MySQL users don’t need to change the values […]

AWS CTO Werner Vogels often jokes that AWS is in the business of “pain management for enterprises,” which gets to the root of many of the IT challenges AWS customers face. Simply asking “Where can we provide customers the most benefit?” often results in a discussion of databases and related license costs, performance and scalability […]

A common technique for transferring files between a database and various application servers is to use the Oracle feature UTL_FILE. This approach allows client servers to copy files into and then read files from a POSIX-compliant directory. It also allows the database to write to and read from those same files by using PL/SQL routines. […]

Seven years ago today, AWS CTO Werner Vogels announced the release of Amazon DynamoDB. We developed DynamoDB on the core principles from a whitepaper published in October 2007, and over the last seven years, we have continued to build this fast and flexible NoSQL database service for any scale, one of a selection of AWS […]

AWS Backup was launched yesterday, and it is integrated with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS, and AWS Storage Gateway to give you a fully managed AWS backup solution. AWS Backup centralizes and automates the backup and retention of your data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises. With […]

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