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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying Operating System (OS) and database environment. With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you can customize the database server host and OS and apply special patches or change database software settings to […]

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) is a fully managed ledger database that maintains a complete, immutable record of every change committed to the database. As transactions are committed to the database, they are appended to a transaction log called a journal and are cryptographically hash-chained to the previous transaction. Once committed, the record of […]

Customers use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition for hosting their Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database workloads. Considering the scale at which today’s applications operate, databases can grow to hundreds of terabytes in a very short span of time. Databases grow in size because the majority share of […]

Capturing database resource utilization helps you understand database workload characteristics and usage trends. This data acts as a reference point that can be compared with later measurements to identify and investigate performance issues. Deviations could potentially indicate an area of concern that requires performance tuning, database maintenance, or configuration changes. Resource utilization typically captures metrics […]

Migration of SAP ASE (previously known as Sybase ASE) to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server is heterogeneous in nature and consists of major phases such as pre-migration assessments, conversion of database schema, and post-migration validation. Because the migration process involves code conversion, it involves the crucial task of validating the converted […]

Message queues allow different parts of a system to communicate and process operations asynchronously. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queueing service that offers two types of message queues: standard queues and first-in-first-out (FIFO) queues. For some applications, such as a call center application, you need message filtering along with […]

Exporting data or restoring to an earlier point in time are core capabilities that customers look for in a software as a service (SaaS) product. Database backup and recovery is vital to business continuity and regulatory compliance. You should understand how your multi-tenant data partitioning model will affect the backup and restore capabilities of your […]

In this post, we explain how you can use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and PowerShell scripts to migrate SSIS project (.ispac) files in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket to an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server database. Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a component […]

As part of this blog series, we previously covered database object validation for migrations from SAP ASE (previously known as Sybase ASE) as source to target databases like Amazon Relational Database Service(Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, or Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. In the final post of this […]

You can use Amazon DynamoDB to build internet-scale applications that support user-content metadata and caches that require high concurrency and connections for millions of users and millions of requests per second using the default DynamoDB Standard table class. For example, Amazon.com uses DynamoDB to deliver consistently low latency for mission critical and extreme-scale events such […]