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Monitoring your Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible and Amazon RDS PostgreSQL from integer sequence overflow

In this post, we discuss integer sequence overflow, its causes, and—most importantly—how to efficiently set up alerts using Amazon SNS and use AWS Lambda to resolve such issues in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Improve Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB security posture by automating rotation for long-lived credentials

In this post, we walk you through how to make your Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB deployments more secure by offering a mechanism to automatically rotate long-lived credentials. We use AWS Secrets Manager to store your tokens and user credentials as secrets and rotate the secrets using the included AWS Lambda functions.

Comparison of test_decoding and pglogical plugins in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for data migration using AWS DMS

In this post, we provide details on two PostgreSQL plugins available for use by AWS DMS. We compare these plugin options and share test results to help database administrators understand the best practices and benefits of each plugin when working on migrations.

Optimize Amazon RDS performance with io2 Block Express storage for production workloads

Choosing the right storage configuration that meets performance requirements is a common challenge when creating and managing database instances. In this post, we provide an end-to-end guide for what storage class to choose depending on your use case. In addition, we compare the performance of different storage volumes on open source engines supported by Amazon RDS, to validate them from a database-centric perspective.

Best practices for creating a VPC for Amazon RDS for Db2

You can create an Amazon RDS for Db2 instance by using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS CloudFormation, Terraform by Hashicorp, AWS Lambda functions, or other methods. One of the prerequisites for creating an RDS for Db2 instance is to configure the virtual private cloud (VPC) appropriately. This post shows how to create a VPC with best practices for any Amazon RDS database in general and Amazon RDS for Db2 in particular through a one-click automated deployment.

How the Amazon TimeHub team designed a recovery and validation framework for their data replication framework: Part 4

With AWS DMS, you can use data validation to make sure your data was migrated accurately from the source to the target. If you enable validation for a task, AWS DMS begins comparing the source and target data immediately after a full load is performed for a table. In this post, we describe the custom framework we built on top of AWS DMS validation tasks to maintain data integrity as part of the ongoing replication between source and target databases.

How the Amazon TimeHub team handled disruption in AWS DMS CDC task caused by Oracle RESETLOGS: Part 3

In How the Amazon TimeHub team designed resiliency and high availability for their data replication framework: Part 2, we covered different scenarios handling replication failures at the source database (Oracle), AWS DMS, and target database (Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition). As part of our resilience scenario testing, when there was a failover between the Oracle primary database instance and primary standby instances, and the database opened up with RESETLOGS, AWS DMS couldn’t automatically read the new set of logs in case of a new incarnation. In this post, we dive deep into the solution the Amazon TimeHub team used for detecting such a scenario and recovering from it. We then describe the post-recovery steps to validate and correct data discrepancies caused due to the failover scenario.

How the Amazon TimeHub team designed resiliency and high availability for their data replication framework: Part 2

In How the Amazon Timehub team built a data replication framework using AWS DMS: Part 1, we covered how we built a low-latency replication solution to replicate data from an Oracle database using AWS DMS to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. In this post, we elaborate on our approach to address resilience of the ongoing replication between source and target databases.

Join your Amazon RDS for Db2 instances across accounts to a single shared domain

With Amazon RDS for Db2, you can seamlessly authenticate your users and groups with or without Kerberos authentication using a single AWS Microsoft AD directory that can serve multiple accounts. In this post, we use AWS Managed Microsoft AD from an AWS account to provide Microsoft AD authentication to Amazon RDS for Db2 in a different account.