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Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server allows up to 5,000 databases per instance. However, the number of databases that can be restored to a specific point in time using point-in-time recovery (PITR) depends on the instance class type. In this post, we show how to use native backup and restore commands to achieve PITR for databases that aren’t eligible because of the instance type limitation. We present two solutions: one applicable to all versions of RDS Custom for SQL Server and the other for RDS Custom for SQL Server version 2022.

In this post, we demonstrate an architecture pattern in which we migrate BLOB column data from Amazon RDS for Oracle tables to Amazon S3. This solution allows you to choose the specific columns and rows containing BLOB data that you want to migrate to Amazon S3. It uses Amazon S3 integration, which enables you to copy data between an RDS for Oracle instance and Amazon S3 using SQL.

This post discusses why DML auditing is important for some organizations, and walks you through setting it up for Amazon Keyspaces. Then, using an example, we show how native integration between Amazon Keyspaces and CloudTrail makes it straightforward to record and analyze audit trails (change events) from multiple tables in a keyspace without the use of additional tools.

Palo Alto Network’s Prisma Cloud is a leading cloud security platform protecting enterprise cloud adoption from code to cloud workflows. Palo Alto Networks chose Amazon Neptune Database and Amazon OpenSearch Service as the core services to power its Infinity Graph. In this post, we discuss the scale Palo Alto Networks requires from these core services and how we were able to design a solution to meet these needs. We focus on the Neptune design decisions and benefits, and explain how OpenSearch Service fits into the design without diving into implementation details.

There are numerous publicly available Resource Description Framework (RDF) datasets that cover a wide range of fields, including geography, life sciences, cultural heritage, and government data. Many of these public datasets can be linked together by loading them into an RDF-compatible database. In this post, we demonstrate how to build knowledge graphs with RDF linked data and openCypher using Amazon Neptune Analytics.

Some customers use Oracle UTL_HTTP package to write PL/SQL programs that communicate with web (HTTP) servers and invoke third-party APIs. When migrating to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, these customers need to perform a custom conversion of their SQL code since PostgreSQL does not offer a similar […]

In this post, we delve into the best practices for migrating database objects from IBM Db2 z/OS to RDS for Db2 and walk you through how to validate these migrated database objects.

In this post, we present the concepts needed to use a persistent semantic cache in MemoryDB with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, and the steps to create a chatbot application that uses the cache. We use MemoryDB as the caching layer for this use case because it delivers the fastest vector search performance at the highest recall rates among popular vector databases on AWS. We use Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock as a vector database because it implements and maintains the RAG functionality for our application without the need of writing additional code.

In this post, we demonstrate how to swiftly deploy Stacks blockchain nodes on AWS with the AWS Blockchain Node Runners blueprint.

When workloads and their corresponding transactional databases are distributed across multiple cloud providers, it can create challenges in using the data in near real time for advanced analytics. In this post, we discuss architecture, approaches, and considerations for streaming data changes from the transactional databases deployed in other cloud providers to a streaming data solution deployed on AWS.