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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle allows you to run Oracle databases on AWS, giving you some of the benefits of Amazon RDS automation and the freedom of changing configurations to match different use cases. While working with customers, we have observed use cases that require a connection to be kept with […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports database activity streams to provide a near-real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. To protect your database from internal and external threats, and to meet compliance and regulatory requirements, you can easily integrate the database activity stream with third-party database activity monitoring […]

Today, you can achieve cross-Region disaster recovery (DR) using the Amazon RDS for SQL Server Cross Region Read Replica feature, but it’s only available for workloads running on SQL Server Enterprise edition (EE). You can also use the cross-Region automated backups feature to develop your DR strategy, but recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point […]

In this post, we discuss AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and how you can use Amazon CloudWatch and logs to monitor the performance and health of a replication task. Additionally, we discuss how to set up CloudWatch Alarms for an AWS DMS task as well as instance related metrics that we configure to receive […]

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Amazon RDS Custom allows you to access and customize your database server host and operating system, for example, by applying special patches and changing the database software settings to support third-party […]

Each year online businesses lose tens of billions of dollars due to fraud, which can take many forms. For example, fraudsters can obtain stolen credit card details and use them for unauthorized transactions. Therefore, detecting fraud and malicious behavior at the time of a transaction, such as when a user registers a new payment method, […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. Spring Boot provides a quick and […]

This is the second in a two-part series about scaling applications globally using multi-Region Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Aurora Global Database. In Part 1, you learned the architecture patterns and foundational pillars of a multi-Region application design. In this post, we use the read local and write global design pattern to scale, […]

While migrating workloads from the Azure Cloud to the AWS Cloud, organizations explore optimal, managed database services to replace their Cosmos DB databases. As NoSQL databases become more ubiquitous, especially those that support the Apache 2.0 open-source MongoDB APIs, our customers often choose Amazon DocumentDB because it’s a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database […]

You can use open source monitoring solutions like Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana to monitor your applications and databases running on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). In this post, we explain how you can leverage these tools on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. Use of open source software […]